Mortuary Ritual and Society: Some Theoretical Considerations
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| 1. | Title | Title of document | Mortuary Ritual and Society: Some Theoretical Considerations - Mortuary Ritual and Society in Bronze Age Cyprus |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Priscilla Keswani; United States |
| 3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | Archaeology |
| 4. | Subject | Keyword(s) | Mortuary Ritual; collective burial |
| 5. | Subject | Subject classification | Archaeology by period / region (HDD); Cyprus (1DVC); Prehistoric archaeology (HDDA) |
| 6. | Description | Abstract | This chapter discusses the ethnological foundations of mortuary analysis, the processual approach to mortuary variability as well as the objection raised by post-processualists against processualist mortuary theory. Moreover, it highlights the importance of examining multiple lines of evidence in interpreting the mortuary record, as well as the importance of understanding mortuary ritual as a dynamic cultural system. It also presents an important development in mortuary ritual that may be associated with increasing socioeconomic complexity, the systems of ‘dual obsequies’. It further discusses secondary treatment and collective burial as well as long-term variations in mortuary elaboration. |
| 7. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
| 8. | Contributor | Sponsor(s) | |
| 9. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 01-Aug-2004 |
| 10. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
| 11. | Type | Type | methdological and theoretical investigation |
| 12. | Format | File format | |
| 13. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/20913 |
| 14. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1558/equinox.20913 |
| 15. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Equinox eBooks Publishing; Mortuary Ritual and Society in Bronze Age Cyprus |
| 16. | Language | English=en | en |
| 18. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) |
Cyprus, Bronze Age |
| 19. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |