Archaeologists and the dead: mortuary archaeology in contemporary society First Edition Howard Williams 0191067970 9780191067976

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• ISBN 10: 0191067970
• ISBN 13: 9780191067976
• Author: Howard Williams

This volume addresses the relationship between archaeologists and the dead, through the many dimensions of their relationships: in the field (through practical and legal issues); in the lab (through their analysis and interpretation); and in their written, visual and exhibitionary practice – disseminated to a variety of academic and public audiences. Written from a variety of perspectives, its authors address the experience, effect, ethical considerations, and cultural politics of working with mortuary archaeology. Whilst some papers reflect institutional or organisational approaches, others are more personal in their view: creating exciting and frank insights into contemporary issues which have hitherto often remained ‘unspoken’ amongst the discipline. Reframing funerary archaeologists as ‘death-workers’ of a kind, the contributors reflect on their own experience to provide both guidance and inspiration to future practitioners, arguing strongly that we have a central role to play in engaging the public with themes of mortality and commemoration, through the lens of the past. Spurred by the recent debates in the UK, papers from Scandinavia, Austria, Italy, the US, and the mid-Atlantic, frame these issues within a much wider international context which highlights the importance of cultural and historical context in which this work takes place.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction: Mortuary Archaeology in Contemporary Society
Part 1: Investigating the Dead
Chapter 2: Questions Raised in Excavating the Recent Dead

Chapter 3: Personhood and Re-Embodiment in Osteological Practice

Chapter 4: Separating the Emotions: Archaeological Mentalities in Central Italian Funerary Archaeolo

Chapter 5: Slave-Trade Archaeology and the Public: The Excavation of a `Liberated African´ Graveyar

Chapter 6: Habeas Corpus: Contested Ownership of Casualties of the Great War

Chapter 7: Bones Without Barriers: The Social Impact of Digging the Dead

Chapter 8: Museum Practice and the Display of Human Remains

Chapter 9: Displaying the Dead: The English Heritage Experience

Chapter 10: The Immortals : Prehistoric Individuals as Ideological and Therapeutic Tools in our Time

Chapter 11: Covering the Mummies at the Manchester Museum: A Discussion of Authority, Authorship,

Chapter 12: Making an Exhibition of Ourselves: Using the Dead to Fight the Battles of the Living

Chapter 13: To Gaze Upon the Dead: The Exhibition of Human Remains as Cultural Practice and Politica

Chapter 14: Firing the Imagination: Cremation in the Museum

Part 3: Public Mortuary Archaeology
Chapter 15: Contemporary Pagans and the Study of the Ancestors

Chapter 16: `Tomb to Give Away´: The Significance of Graves and Dead Bodies in Present-Day Austria

Chapter 17: Digging the Dead in a Digital Media Age

Chapter 18: Writing About Death, Mourning, and Emotion: Archaeology, Imagination, and Creativity

Chapter 19: Reconstructing Death: The Chariot Burials of Iron Age East Yorkshire

Chapter 20: Reflections on Intersections of Mortuary Archaeology and Contemporary Society

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