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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Funerary traditions"”.
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Gravegoods: A Primer for Preservation
… white and black American settlers brought other funerary traditions and influences into the area beginning in the sixteenth century. Gravegoods in historic Deep East Texas cemeteries reflect these influences and traditions. This thesis led to the creation of a preservation brief that will educate …
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Woven Into the Stuff of Other Men's Lives: The Treatment of the Dead in Iron Age Atlantic Scotland.
… like much of Europe, very little is known of the funerary traditions of communities in this region. Formal burial appears to have been rare, and evidence for alternative mortuary treatments is dispersed, varied and, to date, poorly understood. This study sets out to examine for the first time all …
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Identity and Social Change in North-Western Europe (BCE 250/100 - 200 CE): new narratives through funerary evidence
… and regional attempts at organising coherent funerary traditions in the areas of south-eastern England and the southern Netherlands. Four chapters focus on the Pre-Roman Iron Age (PRIA) burial record, body articulation in the PRIA, group identities in the immediate post-conquest period, and …
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The Bronze Age funerary cups of southern England
’Pygmy’, ‘incense’, ‘accessory’ or ‘funerary’ cups are small Early Bronze Age vessels, almost all from mortuary contexts, united by their diminutive size. Although several small-scale and regional studies have previously been undertaken, until recently there has been little attempt to consider such …
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Waking the dead: funerary performance, classical appropriation, and gendered embodiment on the early Abbey stage
"Funerary performances loom large in the earliest accounts of Ireland and Irishness that come down to us. In colonial Ireland, unregulated wakes and funerary traditions endured in spite of legal and ecclesiastical attempts to police death’s meaning according to the interests of the dominant power …
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Reimagining keening: an examination of the reinvention of Irish lament as a healing tool in the contemporary world
… revival of the once widely practiced Irish funerary lament tradition known as keening (from the Irish caoineadh, meaning "to cry"). Keening has declined as a funerary practice since the early twentieth century but is now being reimagined in contemporary Ireland as a healing practice in …