social analyses of funerary traditions in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Nicola Laneri ; with contributions by Ellen F. Morris [and others].
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Chicago :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2007.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xviii, 317 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations, maps, plans ;
Dimensions
26 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Oriental Institute seminars ;
Volume Designation
no. 3
GENERAL NOTES
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Proceedings from the 2nd annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute seminar held at the Oriental Institute, February 17-18, 2006.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references.
CONTENTS NOTE
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An archaeology of funerary rituals / Nicola Laneri -- Sacrifice for the state / E.F. Morris -- Status, ideology, and memory in third-millennium Syria / G.M. Schwartz -- Mortuary rituals, social relations, and identity in southeast Spain in the late third to early second millennia B.C. / Robert Chapman -- Combined efforts till death / Massimo Cultraro -- Remembering and forgetting in early bronze age mortuary practices on the southeastern Dead Sea plain, Jordan / M.S. Chesson -- Etruscan style of dying / Alessandro Naso -- The politics of loss / Adam T. Smith -- Sumerian funerary rituals in context / Dina Katz -- Death and dismemberment in Mesopotamia / Seth Richardson -- Death of a household / Susan Pollock -- Achilles and the sallis wastais ritual / Ian Rutherford -- Ritualizing death in Republican Rome / John Pollini -- Burial treatment as transformations of bodily ideology / John Robb -- Mortuary practices for the third millennium : 1966-2000 / James A. Brown.
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OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Performing death.
International Standard Book Number
1885923503
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient-- Mediterranean Region, Congresses.
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient-- Middle East, Congresses.