This collection explores the behavioral and social facets of funerary, mortuary, and burial rites in both past and present societies. By utilizing data from around the world and combining recent and ongoing concerns in anthropology, it takes the study of mortuary archaeology to a new and significant level of interdisciplinary research. Drawing inspiration from ethnohistory, ethnography, bioarchaeology, and sociocultural anthropology, the authors focus on themes of gender, ancestorhood, ritual violence, individual agency, space and placement, and extended and secondary mortuary ceremonialism....
This collection explores the behavioral and social facets of funerary, mortuary, and burial rites in both past and present societies. By utilizing dat...
The topics of style and function within evolutionary archaeology have been the subject of great debate in the field of archaeology in general over the past two decades. Evolutionary archaeologists have a unique perspective on these concepts-one that has sometimes been misunderstood by archaeologists working within other theoretical perspectives.
The dichotomy between style and function was first formulated in the late 1970s by Robert Dunnell and remains axiomatic within the theoretical perspective of evolutionary archaeology. The original definitions of style and function were grounded...
The topics of style and function within evolutionary archaeology have been the subject of great debate in the field of archaeology in general over ...
The impressive geographical, temporal, and topical coverage makes this volume by far the best of its kind to appear in recent years. George R. Milner, Pennsylvania State University A kaleidoscopic collection of studies with fascinating insights into the myriad and bizarre ways that our species has treated its dead global coverage of human interactions with our dead, past and present an indispensable reference for all scholars interested in death and burial. Michael Parker Pearson, University of Sheffield
This collection explores the behavioral and social facets of funerary,...
The impressive geographical, temporal, and topical coverage makes this volume by far the best of its kind to appear in recent years. George R. Mil...
Ancestors and Elites examines prehispanic ritual behaviors characteristic of the Casas Grandes region of Chihuahua, Mexico. Gordon Rakita analyzes the archaeological data from the site with respect to broader anthropological theories regarding both religious practices and the rise of complex societies. This confluence of empirical fact and general theory allows Rakita to explore in detail the complex, reciprocal relationship between ritual practices and developing social complexity at Paquime, one of the best-documented archaeological sites in the region.
Ancestors and Elites examines prehispanic ritual behaviors characteristic of the Casas Grandes region of Chihuahua, Mexico. Gordon Rakita analyzes the...
