Archaeologists and the dead : mortuary archaeology in contemporary society / edited by Howard Williams and Melanie Giles.
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 - dissemi...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Mortuary archaeology in contemporary society / Melanie Giles and Howard Williams
- Questions raised in excavating the recent dead / Sian Anthony
- Personhood and re-embodiment in osteological practice / John McClelland and Jessica I. Cerezo-Román
- Separating the emotions : archaeological mentalities in central Italian funerary archaeology / Ulla Rajala
- Slave-trade archaeology and the public : the excavation of a "liberated African" graveyard on St. Helena / Andrew Pearson and Ben Jeffs
- Habeas corpus : contested ownership of casualties of the Great War / Martin Brown
- Bones without barriers : the social impact of digging the dead / Faye Sayer and Duncan Sayer
- Museum practice and the display of human remains / Hedley Swain
- Displaying the dead : the English Heritage experience / Sarah Tatham
- The immortals : prehistoric individuals as ideological and theraputic tools in our time / Nina Nordström
- Covering the mummies at the Manchester Museum : a discussion of authority, authorship, and agendas in the human remains debate / Karen Exell
- Making an exhibition of ourselves : using the dead to fight the battles of the living / Tiffany Jenkins
- To gaze upon the dead : the exhibition of human remains as cultural practice and political process in Scandinavia and the USA / Liv Nilsson Stutz
- Firing the imagination : cremation in the museum / Howard Williams
- Contemporary pagans and the study of the ancestors / William Rathouse
- "Tomb to give away" : the significance of graves and dead bodies in present-day Austria / Estella Weiss-Krejci
- Digging the dead in a digital media age / Duncan Sayer and Tony Walter
- Writing about death, mourning, and emotion : archaeology, imagination, and creativity / Trevor Kirk
- Reconstructing death : the chariot burials of Iron Age East Yorkshire / Melanie Giles
- Reflections on intersections of mortuary archaeology and contemporary society / Lynne Goldstein.