In this book, Sarah Tarlow provides an innovative archaeology of
bereavement, mortality and memory in the early modern and modern
period. She draws on literary and historical sources as well as on
material evidence to examine the evolution of attitudes towards
death and commemoration over four centuries.
The book argues that changes in commemorative practices over
time relate to a changing relationship between the living and the
dead and are inextricably linked to the conceptions of identity and
personal relationships which characterize later Western history.
The author's approach is different from most previous work in this
area not only because of its focus on material culture but also
because of its incorporation of experiential and emotional factors
into discussions of human relations and understandings in the
past.
As well as introducing readers to the study of death and
rememberance in the past, this book contributes to wider
archaeological debates about the interpretation of meaning and the
place of emotion and experience in archaeological study. It will be
of interest to all scholars and students interested in critical and
theoretically informed approaches to the study of people in the
past.
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