Mortuary Ritual and Society in Bronze Age Cyprus - (Volume 9) - Priscilla Keswani

Mortuary Ritual and Society in Bronze Age Cyprus - (Volume 9) - Priscilla Keswani

Mortuary Ritual, Social Structure, and Macro-Processual Change in the Cypriot Bronze Age

Mortuary Ritual and Society in Bronze Age Cyprus - (Volume 9) - Priscilla Keswani

Priscilla Keswani [+-]
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Priscilla Keswani received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Michigan in 1989 and has taught at Washington State University and the Borough of Manhattan Community College. She has participated in archaeological field projects in Cyprus for many years and published a number of scholarly papers on Bronze Age burial practices, political organization, exchange systems, and pottery.

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This chapter considers the broader regional processes that impinged upon local systems of meaning and ritual, and the ways in which those processes, were experienced and influenced in the course of mortuary celebrations. The chapter further reviews the principal developments in areas of demography, settlement patterns, economic production, and household and community organization that may be inferred from non-mortuary archaeological data, along with their implications for social structure and ideology. The changing role of mortuary ritual in the social life of Cypriot communities is further examined, as well as the issue of how local ideologies and ritual practices were affected by supralocal or macro-processes of economic and sociopolitical change.

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Keswani, Priscilla. Mortuary Ritual, Social Structure, and Macro-Processual Change in the Cypriot Bronze Age. Mortuary Ritual and Society in Bronze Age Cyprus - (Volume 9). Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 145-162 Aug 2004. ISBN 9781845532826. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=20918. Date accessed: 26 Apr 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.20918. Aug 2004

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