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16 papers presented from an EAA session held at Krakow in 2006,
exploring various aspects of the archaeology of death. Contents:
Chapter 1. The Materiality of Death: Bodies, Burials, Beliefs
(Fredrik Fahlander & Terje Oestigaard); Chapter 2. More than
Metaphor: Approaching the Human Cadaver in Archaeology (Liv Nilsson
Stutz); Chapter 3. A Piece of the Mesolithic. Horizontal
Stratigraphy and Bodily Manipulations at Skateholm (Fredrik
Fahlander); Chapter 4. Excavating the KingsAe Bones: The
Materiality of Death in Practice and Ethics Today 9Anders Kaliff
& Terje Oestigaard); Chapter 5. From Corpse to Ancestor: The
Role of Tombside Dining in the Transformation of the Body in
Ancient Rome (Regina Gee); Chapter 6. Cremations, Conjecture and
Contextual Taphonomies: Material Strategies during the 4th to 2nd
Millennia BC in Scotland (Paul R J Duffy and Gavin MacGregor);
Chapter 7. Ritual and Remembrance at Archaic Crustumerium. The
Transformations of Past and Modern Materialities in the Cemetery of
Cisterna Grande (Rome, Italy) (Ulla Rajala); Chapter 8. Reuse in
Finnish Cremation Cemeteries under Level Ground - Examples of
Collective Memory (Anna Wickholm); Chapter 9. Life and Death in the
Bronze Age of the NW of Iberian Peninsula (Ana M. S. Bettencourt);
Chapter 10. Norwegian Face-Urns: Local Context and Interregional
Contacts (Malin Aasbe); Chapter 11. The Use of Ochre in Stone Age
Burials of the East Baltic (Ilga Zagorska); Chapter 12. oDeath
Mythso: Performing of Rituals and Variation in Corpse Treatment
during the Migration Period in Norway (Siv Kristoffersen and Terje
Oestigaard); Chapter 13. Reproduction and Relocation of Death in
Iron Age Scandinavia (Terje Gansum); Chapter 14. A Road for the
VikingAes Soul (Ake Johansson); Chapter 15. A Road to the Other
Side (Camilla Gr); Chapter 16. Stones and Bones: The Myth of Ymer
and Mortuary Practises with an Example from the Migration Period in
Uppland, Central Sweden (Christina Lindgren).
This collection of texts is a first step towards providing a
theoretical and methodological platform for the study of social
encounters. The social encounter is a particular sort of concept,
focusing on confusion, tension, trauma, and possibly social change
that may emerge in situations of contact when people and things
interact. A social encounter is, however, not only about
negotiation or contemplating existence, but is rather about what
happens when people interact actively, when they involve themselves
with people and materialities, when they move around, fetch things,
use things, leave things etc. The repeated social encounter is
often a confrontation with something, such as an opinion, a
performance, or with materialities and the effects are often
unpredictable. Encounters may reproduce a social pattern, but also
contain potential for transformation and change. Such varied
responses to encounters will certainly have effects on the
archaeological record. The primary focus of the volume is the
effects and processes involved in intra- and inter-societal
encounters. The collection hence fills a theoretical and
methodological gap in the study of the encounter in archaeology.
There is a need for elaborating aspects of postcolonial theory in
order to develop new ways of approaching the archaeological record.
The articles of this volume include examples from various regions
and time periods. They range from Scandinavian Stone Age, through
Buddhist social practices of the first millennium AD, Maya warfare
and ideology, to Aboriginal-European encounters in 20th century
Australia. Per Cornell (PhD, Ass. Prof.) is currently lecturer at
the Department of archaeology, University of Gothenburg. Cornell
has been involved in extensive field-work in Latin America and
current research topics include settlement archaeology, formation
processes and social theory. Among his recent books are Local,
Regional, Global, co-edited with Per Stenborg (Gotarc, 2004).
This collection of texts is a first step towards providing a
theoretical and methodological platform for the study of social
encounters. The social encounter is a particular sort of concept,
focusing on confusion, tension, trauma, and possibly social change
that may emerge in situations of contact when people and things
interact. A social encounter is, however, not only about
negotiation or contemplating existence, but is rather about what
happens when people interact actively, when they involve themselves
with people and materialities, when they move around, fetch things,
use things, leave things etc. The repeated social encounter is
often a confrontation with something, such as an opinion, a
performance, or with materialities and the effects are often
unpredictable. Encounters may reproduce a social pattern, but also
contain potential for transformation and change. Such varied
responses to encounters will certainly have effects on the
archaeological record. The primary focus of the volume is the
effects and processes involved in intra- and inter-societal
encounters. The collection hence fills a theoretical and
methodological gap in the study of the encounter in archaeology.
There is a need for elaborating aspects of postcolonial theory in
order to develop new ways of approaching the archaeological record.
The articles of this volume include examples from various regions
and time periods. They range from Scandinavian Stone Age, through
Buddhist social practices of the first millennium AD, Maya warfare
and ideology, to Aboriginal-European encounters in 20th century
Australia.Per Cornell (PhD, Ass. Prof.) is currently lecturer at
the Department of archaeology, University of Gothenburg. Cornell
has been involved in extensive field-work in Latin America and
current research topics include settlement archaeology, formation
processes and social theory. Among his recent books are Local,
Regional, Global, co-edited with Per Stenborg (Gotarc, 2004).
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