Transmission and Mortal Anxiety in the Tale of Aqhat [PDF]
Forthcoming in Like ʾIlu Are You Wise: Studies in Northwest Semitic Languages and Literature in Honor of Dennis G.
Jacqueline Vayntrub
core +1 more source
Excavations and the afterlife of a professional football stadium, Peel Park, Accrington, Lancashire: towards an archaeology of football [PDF]
Association football is now a multi-billion dollar global industry whose emergence spans the post-medieval to the modern world. With its professional roots in late 19th-century industrial Lancashire, stadiums built for the professionalization of ...
Ayto E. +19 more
core +1 more source
Death embodied. Archaeological approaches to the treatment of the corpse edited by Zoë L Devlin and Emma-Jayne Graham [Book review] [PDF]
Ye
Buckberry, Jo
core +1 more source
Work of a Nation: Christian Funerary Ecumenism and Institutional Disruption in Swaziland [PDF]
This article traces how contemporary funerary practices—foodways, prayer and burial cooperative participation—configure a Christian public culture in Swaziland that draws from ordinary citizens’ religious, ritual and political work and membership in ...
Golomski, Casey
core +2 more sources
The Past ‘Interpreter’. Historical Stratifications in the Ritual Symbolism of Saint Joseph Festivals and Holy Week in Sicily [PDF]
I temi della continuità culturale e della "sopravvivenza" del simbolismo rituale sono stati al centro dibattito in campo religioso antropologico e storico.
Buttitta I
core +1 more source
This article reflects on the Javanese view of death, based notably on first-hand accounts of ritual masters, their conceptions and ritual practices. Existing ethnographic literature on Javanese funerary rituals is largely descriptive and delves little ...
Jean-Marc de Grave
doaj +1 more source
Complexity and coherence [PDF]
Leslie Topp traces the emergence of the asylum mortuary as an architectural challenge. Drawing on new archival research, Complexity and Coherence: The Challenge of the Asylum Mortuary in Central Europe, 1898–1908 unpacks the highly fraught combination of
Topp, Leslie
core +1 more source
Des tombes chasséennes attestées dans le Toulousain
Up to recently nearly all the burials of the Chasséen culture known from the region of Toulouse were found as secondary burials in structures whose original purpose was not funerary.
Fabrice Pons +2 more
doaj +1 more source
‘There Buds the Laurel’: Nature, Temporality and the Making of Place in the Cemeteries of Roman Italy [PDF]
Using the necropolis environments of the Vesuvian region of Imperial period Italy as a case study, this paper examines the ways in which multiple, overlapping, and temporally specific senses of place were associated with Roman funerary landscapes.
Graham, Emma-Jayne
core +1 more source
ABSTRACT The Carnac alignments in Morbihan (France) are among the most famous Neolithic sites of the world. Paradoxically, they have benefited little from a thorough renewal of archaeological data over the past century. There are many reasons for this, but it is mainly because the site has been regarded more as a monument to visit and protect than as ...
Guillaume Bruniaux +6 more
wiley +1 more source

