Staging Death

Funerary Performance, Architecture and Landscape in the Aegean

Anastasia Dakouri-Hild, Michael John Boyd, Anastasia Dakouri-Hild, Michael John Boyd, Anastasia Dakouri-Hild, Michael J. Boyd

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2016
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110479195
• Subtopic: Ancient History
• Index: History

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.

Index

• Achaea 1, 2
• Aegina 1, 2
• age-at-death 1, 2
• Aidonia 1, 2
• Anatolian 1
• Antheia 1
• Apesokari 1, 2
• Aphidna 1, 2, 3, 4
• archaeothanatology 1, 2, 3
• architecture 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41
• Argolid 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25
• Argos 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
• Asine 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
• Aspis 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• Asterousia 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Atalanti 1, 2
• Athenian Agora 1, 2
• Attica 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
• Avlonari 1
• Ayios Kosmas 1, 2, 3
• Ayios Stephanos 1, 2, 3, 4
• Barrett, John 1, 2, 3
• beads 1, 2, 3, 4
• body 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29
• – dismemberment 1
• Boeotia 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
• bone relocation 1, 2
• bone tubes 1
• Bronze Age
• – Early 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
• – Middle 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
• – Late 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
• built chamber tomb 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
• burial
• – adult 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
• – ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Staging Death: an Introduction
• Getting to Funerary Place in a Fairly Short Stretch of Time: Death and Performance in the Prehistoric Aegean
• Performative Places: Movement and Theatricality
• Familial Places: Deathscapes and Townscapes
• Placing Bodies, Embodying Places
• Biographies and Memories of Place
• From Deathscapes to Beliefscapes
• BIOS
• Index