Staging Death: Funerary Performance, Architecture and Landscape in the Aegean

Published by De Gruyter 2017

Staging Death

Funerary Performance, Architecture and Landscape in the Aegean

Edited by: Anastasia Dakouri-Hild and Michael John Boyd

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110480573

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About this book

Places are social, lived, ideational landscapes constructed by people as they inhabit their natural and built environment. An ‘archaeology of place’ attempts to move beyond the understanding of the landscape as inert background or static fossil of human behaviour. From a specifically mortuary perspective, this approach entails a focus on the inherently mutable, transient and performative qualities of 'deathscapes': how they are remembered, obliterated, forgotten, reworked, or revisited over time. Despite latent interest in this line of enquiry, few studies have explored the topic explicitly in Aegean archaeology. This book aims to identify ways in which to think about the deathscape as a cross between landscapes, tombs, bodies, and identities, supplementing and expanding upon well explored themes in the field (e.g. tombs as vehicles for the legitimization of power; funerary landscapes as arenas of social and political competition). The volume recasts a wealth of knowledge about Aegean mortuary cultures against a theoretical background, bringing the field up to date with recent developments in the archaeology of place.

Author / Editor information

Anastasia Dakouri-Hild, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA; Michael J. Boyd, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Staging Death: an Introduction Michael J. Boyd and Anastasia Dakouri-Hild Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Getting to Funerary Place in a Fairly Short Stretch of Time: Death and Performance in the Prehistoric Aegean Anastasia Dakouri-Hild Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Performative Places: Movement and Theatricality
Funerary Ritual-Architectural Events in the Temple Tomb and the Royal Tomb at Knossos Maria Chountasi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Fields of Action in Mycenaean Funerary Practices Michael J. Boyd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Politics of Death at Mitrou: Two Prepalatial Elite Tombs in a Landscape of Power Aleydis Van de Moortel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Familial Places: Deathscapes and Townscapes
Intra, Extra, Inferus and Supra Mural Burials of the Middle Helladic period: Spatial Diversity in Practice Kalliope Sarri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
The Practice of Funerary Destruction in the Southwest Peloponnese Kate Harrell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
A Roof for the Dead: Tomb Design and the ‘Domestication of Death’ in Mycenaean Funerary Architecture Yannis Galanakis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Placing Bodies, Embodying Places
Revisiting the Tomb: Mortuary Practices in Habitation Areas in the Transition to the Late Bronze Age at Kirrha, Phocis Anna Lagia, Ioanna Moutafi, Raphaël Orgeolet, Despoina Skorda and Julien Zurbach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Mortuary Practices in the Middle Bronze Age at Kouphovouno: Vernacular Dimensions of the Mortuary Ritual Bill Cavanagh, Anna Lagia and Chris Mee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
‘Death Is Not the End’: Tracing the Manipulation of Bodies and Other Materials in the Early and Middle Minoan Cemetery at Sissi Ilse Schoep and Peter Tomkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Biographies and Memories of Place
A Posthumanocentric Approach to Funerary Ritual and its Sociohistorical Significance: the Early and Middle Bronze Age Tholos Tombs at Apesokari, Crete Giorgos Vavouranakis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
From Performing Death to Venerating the Ancestors at Lebena Yerokambos, Crete Emily Miller Bonney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Aegean Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Burials in the Ruins of Rulers’ Dwellings: a Legitimisation of Power? Angélique Labrude Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
From Deathscapes to Beliefscapes
Continuities and Discontinuities in Helladic Burial Customs During the Bronze Age Oliver Dickinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
Structuring Space, Performing Rituals, Creating Memories: Towards a Cognitive Map of Early Mycenaean Funerary Behaviour Nikolas Papadimitriou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
Pollution and Purity in the Argolid and Corinthia During the Early Iron Age: the Burials Sam Farnham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361
Bios Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	395

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Advanced students, academic spcialists, professional practitioners and scholars in Aegean and Greek archaeology and history
Pages
- Front matter: 11
- Main content: 398
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 19
- Coloured Illustrations: 19
- Tables: 3
Keywords: Death; landscape; performance

eBook

Published: December 19, 2016
ISBN: 9783110480573

Hardcover

Published: December 19, 2016
ISBN: 9783110475784