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Death and the Body in Bronze Age Europe - From Inhumation to Cremation (Hardcover)
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Death and the Body in Bronze Age Europe - From Inhumation to Cremation (Hardcover)
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This volume offers new insights into the radical shift in attitudes
towards death and the dead body that occurred in temperate Bronze
Age Europe. Exploring the introduction and eventual dominance of
cremation, Marie-Louise Stig Sorenson and Katharina Rebay-Salisbury
apply a case-study approach to investigate how this transformation
unfolded within local communities located throughout central to
northern Europe. They demonstrate the deep link between the living
and the dead body, and propose that the introduction of cremation
was a significant ontological challenge to traditional ideas about
death. In tracing the responses to this challenge, the authors
focus on three fields of action: the treatment of the dead body,
the construction of a burial place, and ongoing relationships with
the dead body after burial. Interrogating cultural change at its
most fundamental level, the authors elucidate the fundamental
tension between openness towards the 'new' and the conservative
pull of the familiar and traditional.
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