|
Showing 1 - 18 of
18 matches in All Departments
A unflinching memoir exploring the realities of marriage, care-giving, how we die and how we grieve.
After thirteen years together, Sarah Tarlow’s husband Mark began to suffer from an undiagnosed illness, which rapidly left him incapable of caring for himself. Life – an intense juggling act of a demanding job, young children and looking after a depressed and frustrated parner – became hard.
One day, five years after he first started showing symptoms, Mark waited for Sarah and their children to leave their home before ending his own life. Although Sarah had devoted her professional life as an archaeologist to the study of death and how we grieve, she found that nothing had prepared her for the reality of illness and the devastation of loss.
The Archaeology of Loss is a fiercely vulnerable, deeply intimate and yet unflinchingly direct memoir which describes a universal experience with a singular gaze. Told with humour, intelligence and urgency, its raw honesty offers profound consolation in difficult times.
A stunning blend of the personal and professional, The Archaeology
of Loss is Sarah Tarlow's first memoir. An accomplished
archaeologist, much of Sarah's work is concerned with the ritual
and belief behind the practice of grief. In 2012, she was awarded
the Chair in Archaeology at the University of Leicester. But in the
years that followed this appointment, Sarah's husband, Mark, would
begin to suffer from a progressive but undiagnosed illness, finally
resulting in his inability to drive, to walk, to taste or to care
for himself. Though Sarah had devoted her professional life to the
study of emotion, of how we anticipate and experience grief,
nothing could have prepared her for the realities of care-giving,
of losing someone you love and the helplessness attached to both. A
fiercely honest and unique memoir, The Archaeology of Loss
describes a collective experience with an unflinching and singular
gaze and will undoubtedly speak to readers of The Salt Path and H
is for Hawk. Told with humour, intelligence and urgency, this is an
unforgettable piece of writing.
My whole adult life, I have made a study of death. Sarah Tarlow has
devoted her working life to the study of death, burial practices,
and the rituals of grief. She is also a widow. Shortly after her
appointment as the Chair of Archaeology at the University of
Leicester, her partner Mark began to suffer from a bitter,
drawn-out and undiagnosed illness, leaving him unable to care for
himself. Eventually, two weeks after they married, Mark waits for
Sarah and their children to leave the house, and ends his own life
in an extraordinary act of courage and love. Although Sarah is
considered an expert in the history and archaeology of death, she
will find that nothing could have prepared her for the reality of
illness, care-giving and losing someone you love. A fiercely
honest, intimate and unique blend of the professional and the
personal, The Archaeology of Loss describes a universal experience
with an unflinching and singular gaze. Told with humour,
intelligence and urgency, this is an unforgettable piece of
writing.
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book is
the first academic study of the post-mortem practice of gibbeting
('hanging in chains'), since the nineteenth century. Gibbeting
involved placing the executed body of a malefactor in an iron cage
and suspending it from a tall post. A body might remain in the
gibbet for many decades, while it gradually fell to pieces. Hanging
in chains was a very different sort of post-mortem punishment from
anatomical dissection, although the two were equal alternatives in
the eyes of the law. Where dissection obliterated and
de-individualised the body, hanging in chains made it monumental
and rooted it in the landscape, adding to personal notoriety.
Focusing particularly on the period 1752-1832, this book provides a
summary of the historical evidence, the factual history of
gibbetting which explores the locations of gibbets, the material
technologies involved in hanging in chains, and the actual process
from erection to eventual collapse. It also considers the meanings,
effects and legacy of this gruesome practice.
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book is
the first academic study of the post-mortem practice of gibbeting
('hanging in chains'), since the nineteenth century. Gibbeting
involved placing the executed body of a malefactor in an iron cage
and suspending it from a tall post. A body might remain in the
gibbet for many decades, while it gradually fell to pieces. Hanging
in chains was a very different sort of post-mortem punishment from
anatomical dissection, although the two were equal alternatives in
the eyes of the law. Where dissection obliterated and
de-individualised the body, hanging in chains made it monumental
and rooted it in the landscape, adding to personal notoriety.
Focusing particularly on the period 1752-1832, this book provides a
summary of the historical evidence, the factual history of
gibbetting which explores the locations of gibbets, the material
technologies involved in hanging in chains, and the actual process
from erection to eventual collapse. It also considers the meanings,
effects and legacy of this gruesome practice.
What is the archaeology of the body and how can it change the way
we experience the past? This book, one of the first to appear on
the subject, records and evaluates the emergence of this new
direction of cross-disciplinary research, and examines the
potential of incorporating some of its insights into archaeology.
It will be of interest to students, researchers, and teachers in
archaeology, as well as in cognate disciplines such as anthropology
and history.
What is the archaeology of the body and how can it change the
way we experience the past? This book, one of the first to appear
on the subject, records and evaluates the emergence of this new
direction of cross-disciplinary research, and examines the
potential of incorporating some of its insights into archaeology.
It will be of interest to students, researchers, and teachers in
archaeology, as well as in cognate disciplines such as anthropology
and history.
This open access book is the culmination of many years of research
on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals in the past.
Focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it looks at
the consequences of the 1752 Murder Act. These criminal bodies had
a crucial role in the history of medicine, and the history of
crime, and great symbolic resonance in literature and popular
culture. Starting with a consideration of the criminal corpse in
the medieval and early modern periods, chapters go on to review the
histories of criminal justice, of medical history and of gibbeting
under the Murder Act, and ends with some discussion of the
afterlives of the corpse, in literature, folklore and in
contemporary medical ethics. Using sophisticated insights from
cultural history, archaeology, literature, philosophy and ethics as
well as medical and crime history, this book is a uniquely
interdisciplinary take on a fascinating historical phenomenon.
Historical burial grounds are an enormous archaeological resource
and have the potential to inform studies not only of demography or
the history of disease and mortality, but also histories of the
body, of religious and other beliefs about death, of changing
social relationships, values and aspirations. In the last decades,
the intensive urban development and a widespread legal requirement
to undertake archaeological excavation of historical sites has led
to a massive increase in the number of post-medieval graveyards and
burial places that have been subjected to archaeological
investigation. The archaeology of the more recent periods, which
are comparatively well documented, is no less interesting and
important an area of study than prehistoric periods. This volume
offers a range of case studies and reflections on aspects of death
and burial in post-medieval Europe. Looking at burial goods, the
spatial aspects of cemetery organisation and the way that the
living interact with the dead, contributors who have worked on
sites from Central, North and West Europe present some of their
evidence and ideas. The coherence of the volume is maintained by a
substantial integrative introduction by the editor, Professor Sarah
Tarlow. "This book is a 'first' and a necessary one. It is an
exciting and far-ranging collection of studies on post-medieval
burial practice across Europe that will most certainly be used
extensively" Professor Howard Williams
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial reviews
the current state of mortuary archaeology and its practice,
highlighting its often contentious place in the modern
socio-politics of archaeology. It contains forty-four chapters
which focus on the history of the discipline and its current
scientific techniques and methods. Written by leading,
international scholars in the field, it derives its examples and
case studies from a wide range of time periods, such as the middle
palaeolithic to the twentieth century, and geographical areas which
include Europe, North and South America, Africa, and Asia.
Combining up-to-date knowledge of relevant archaeological research
with critical assessments of the theme and an evaluation of future
research trajectories, it draws attention to the social, symbolic,
and theoretical aspects of interpreting mortuary archaeology. The
volume is well-illustrated with maps, plans, photographs, and
illustrations and is ideally suited for students and researchers.
Drawing on archaeological, historical, theological, scientific and
folkloric sources, Sarah Tarlow's interdisciplinary study examines
belief as it relates to the dead body in early modern Britain and
Ireland. From the theological discussion of bodily resurrection to
the folkloric use of body parts as remedies, and from the judicial
punishment of the corpse to the ceremonial interment of the social
elite, this book discusses how seemingly incompatible beliefs about
the dead body existed in parallel through this tumultuous period.
This study, which is the first to incorporate archaeological
evidence of early modern death and burial from across Britain and
Ireland, addresses new questions about the materiality of death:
what the dead body means, and how its physical substance could be
attributed with sentience and even agency. It provides a
sophisticated original interpretive framework for the growing
quantities of archaeological and historical evidence about mortuary
beliefs and practices in early modernity.
In this innovative 2007 study, Sarah Tarlow shows how the
archaeology of this period manifests a widespread and cross-cutting
ethic of improvement. Theoretically informed and drawn from primary
and secondary sources in a range of disciplines, the author
considers agriculture and the rural environment, towns, and
buildings such as working-class housing and institutions of reform.
From bleach baths to window glass, rubbish pits to tea wares, the
material culture of the period reflects a particular set of values
and aspirations. Tarlow examines the philosophical and historical
background to the notion of improvement and demonstrates how this
concept is a useful lens through which to examine the material
culture of later historical Britain.
Drawing on archaeological, historical, theological, scientific and
folkloric sources, Sarah Tarlow's interdisciplinary study examines
belief as it relates to the dead body in early modern Britain and
Ireland. From the theological discussion of bodily resurrection to
the folkloric use of body parts as remedies, and from the judicial
punishment of the corpse to the ceremonial interment of the social
elite, this book discusses how seemingly incompatible beliefs about
the dead body existed in parallel through this tumultuous period.
This study, which is the first to incorporate archaeological
evidence of early modern death and burial from across Britain and
Ireland, addresses new questions about the materiality of death:
what the dead body means, and how its physical substance could be
attributed with sentience and even agency. It provides a
sophisticated original interpretive framework for the growing
quantities of archaeological and historical evidence about mortuary
beliefs and practices in early modernity.
|
|