The Archaeology of Ancestors: Death, Memory, and Veneration 1st Edition

The Archaeology of Ancestors: Death, Memory, and Veneration 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780813055756,081305575X

Product details:

• ISBN 10:081305575X
• ISBN 13: 9780813055756
• Author: Hill Hageman, Jon B. Hageman

Ancient peoples used their ancestors’ perceived influence to deal with domestic disputes, advertise wealth, validate authority, and much more. Erica Hill and Jon Hageman’s volume explores these dimensions of ancestor worship through the study of documentary evidence and material remains, including funerary structures, human remains, art and iconography, structured deposits, and architecture

Table contents:

1. Revisiting Ancestors. Leveraging the dead : the ethnography of ancestors
2. The archaeology of ancestors
3. Memory, power, and death in Chinese history and prehistory
4. Achieving ancestorhood in Ancient Greece
5. The ethnoarchaeology of West African ancestors : Kusasi shrines and domestic space
6. Discovering Ancestors. Landscapes of ancestors : the structuring of space around Iron Age funerary monuments in Central Europe
7. Royal ancestor construction and veneration in the House of Habsburg
8. Images of ancestors : identifying the revered dead in Moche iconography
9. Where the ancestors live : shrines and their meaning among the classic Maya

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