Bereavement and Commemoration: An Archaeology of Mortality by Sarah Tarlow (University of Wales, Lampeter)
This book provides an historical archaeology of death, burial and bereavement from the Reformation to the present.
Bereavement and Commemoration
Bereavement and Commemoration
Summary
Provides a historical archaeology of death, burial and bereavement from the Reformation to the end of the 20th century. This text draws on literary and historical sources as well as on material evidence to examine the evolution of attitudes towards death and remembrance in Britain and the USA.
Bereavement and Commemoration Summary
Bereavement and Commemoration Reviews
An interesting and informative work. Choice
This is a thoughtful study that attempts to deal with subjects of major import ... no one will come away from this book without new ideas and perceptions about the nature of bereavement, how it is commemorated through material culture and how these objects have been interpreted. Times Higher Education Supplement
... [an] extremely important contribution to the fast-growing field of post-medieval death studies. Archaeological Journal
A stimulating read. Post-Medieval Archaeology
Tarlow's book is heartening evidence that bereavement research need not stay in a narrow ghetto. Bereavement Care
Throughout, there is a sense of the writer's own humanity ... There is a great deal of interest to be found in this book and it is to be hoped that it will encourage others who choose death as their subject to be as humane in the way they write about it. Folklore
About Sarah Tarlow (University of Wales, Lampeter)
Sarah Tarlow is a Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Wales, Lampeter, where she teaches courses in the archaeology of death, later historical periods and aspects of archaeological method and theory. Since receiving her PhD in archaeology from Cambridge University, she has published articles on the later historical archaeology of Britain and on the archaeology of death. Her current research interests are in archaeologies of the human body and in utopian communities. She is co-editor of The Familiar Past? Archaeologies of Later Historical Britain (1998).
Table of Contents
List of Figures.
List of tables.
Preface.
1. A historical archaeology of death.
2. Towards an archaeology of bereavement and commemoration: death, emotion and metaphor.
3. Changing commemorative practices in Orkney.
4. A living memory and a corrupting corpse.
5. Remembering the dead in the nineteenth century: a love story.
6. War and remembrance.
7. Loved and lost.
Glossary.
References.
Index.
Additional information
NPB9780631206132
9780631206132
0631206132
Bereavement and Commemoration: An Archaeology of Mortality by Sarah Tarlow (University of Wales, Lampeter)
New
Hardback
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
1999-06-14
224
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