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Author:   Howard Williams (Professor, Professor, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Chester) ,  Melanie Giles (Senior Lecturer, Archaeology, Senior Lecturer, Archaeology, University of Manchester)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.80cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.946kg
ISBN:  

9780198753537

ISBN 10:   0198753535
Pages:   496
Publication Date:   09 June 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

ForewordMike Parker Pearson: 1: Melanie Giles and Howard Williams: Introduction: Mortuary Archaeology in Contemporary Society Part 1: Investigating The Dead 2: Sian Anthony: Questions Raised in Excavating the Recent Dead 3: John McClelland and Jessica Cerezo-Román: Personhood and Re-Embodiment in Osteological Practice 4: Ulla Rajala: Separating the Emotions: Archaeological Mentalities in Central Italian Funerary Archaeology 5: Andrew Pearson and Ben Jeffs: Slave Trade Archaeology and the Public: The Excavation of a 'Liberated African' Graveyard on St Helena 6: Martin Brown: Habeas Corpus: Contested Ownership of Casualties of The Great War 7: Faye Sayer and Duncan Sayer: Bones Without Barriers: The Social Impact of Digging the Dead Part 2: Displaying the Dead 8: Hedley Swain: Museum Practice and the Display of Human Remains 9: Sarah Tatham: Displaying the Dead: The English Heritage Experience 10: Nina Nordström: The Immortals: Prehistoric Individuals as Ideological and Therapeutic Tools in our Time 11: Karen Exell: Covering the Mummies at the Manchester Museum: A Discussion of Authority, Authorship and Agendas in the Human Remains Debate 12: Tiffany Jenkins: Making an Exhibition of Ourselves: Using the Dead to Fight the Battles of the Living 13: Liv Nilsson Stutz: To Gaze Upon The Dead: The Exhibition of Human Remains as Cultural Practice and Political Process In Scandinavia and the United States 14: Howard Williams: Firing the Imagination: Cremation in the Museum Part 3: Public Mortuary Archaeology 15: William Rathouse: Contemporary Pagans and the Study of the Ancestors 16: Estella Weiss-Krejci: 'Tomb to Give Away': The Significance of Graves and Dead Bodies in Present-Day Austria 17: Duncan Sayer and Tony Walter: Digging The Dead in a Digital Media Age 18: Trevor Kirk: Writing About Death, Mourning and Emotion: Archaeology and Creativity 19: Melanie Giles: Reconstructing Death: The Chariot Burials of Iron Age East Yorkshire 20: Lynn Goldstein: Reflections on Intersections of Mortuary Archaeology and Contemporary Society

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[a] thought-provoking book ... The breadth and rigour of analyses, from fieldwork to museum displays ... offer plenty of food for thought. Current Archaeology

Howard Williams and Melanie Giles have produced a book that will be of interest to professionals and general readers alike. Jo Appleby, Times Literary Supplement [a] thought-provoking book ... The breadth and rigour of analyses, from fieldwork to museum displays ... offer plenty of food for thought. Current Archaeology

Author Information

Howard Williams is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Chester. His research interests focus on medieval, post-medieval and contemporary mortuary archaeology, archaeologies of memory and the history of archaeology. His fieldwork includes Project Eliseg, investigating the context of the Pillar of Eliseg (Denbighshire, Wales). Howard has published over 70 book chapters and journal articles as well as edited books, most recently Early Medieval Stone Monuments: Materiality, Biography, Landscape (Boydell and Brewer, 2015) and he is Honorary Editor of the Archaeological Journal (2013-2017) and his monograph is titled Death and Memory in Early Medieval Britain (CUP, 2006). Melanie Giles in an expert in the British and northern European Iron Age, specialising in funerary archaeology as well as Celtic art and artefacts. She is the author of 'A Forged Glamour: Landscape, identity and material culture in the Iron Age' (Windgather Press) and the forthcoming 'Bog Bodies: Face-to-face with the past' (Pen & Sword Press).

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