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Author:   Titta Kallio-Seppa ,  Sanna Lipkin ,  Tiina Vare ,  Ulla Moilanen
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781800736023

ISBN 10:   1800736029
Pages:   308
Publication Date:   12 August 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Introduction: In Search of Unusual in Early Modern and Modern Burial Traditions Titta Kallio-Seppa, Sanna Lipkin, Annemari Tranberg, Tiina Vare, and Ulla Moilanen Memorials, Graveyards, Epidemics: Inequality, Disease and Sudden Death Chapter 1. Forgotten and Remembered: Unusual Memorial Practices at Buffalo's old Cemeteries Sanna Lipkin Chapter 2. Reactions to Tragedy: Familial and Community Memorials to Sudden Occupational Deaths in Britain and Ireland Harold Mytum Chapter 3. Memory of Epidemic Diseases in Finland: Old Disease Cemeteries and Modern Urban Planning Titta Kallio-Seppa and Tiina Vare Chapter 4. Freethinkers' Cemeteries and Local Secular Burial Culture in Finland Ilona Pajari Peculiar Burial Places Chapter 5. Death during retreat - the burials of Carolean soldiers in Jamtland and Trondelag (Sweden and Norway) Kristina Jonsson Chapter 6. Taken to the Island. Temporary Burials in Early and Late Modern Periods in Finnish Periphery Tiina Vare and Juha Ruohonen Memories and Folklore of Unusual Death Chapter 7. On the Apparitions of Drowned Men : Folklore and the Memory of Unnatural Death at Haffjardarey, Western Iceland Sarah Hoffman Chapter 8. The Death is Living with Us - Witchcraft at the East Coast of Bothnian Bay during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Annemari Tranberg Unusual Cause of Death Chapter 9. The cause of Death - Arsenic or Mercury? Investigation of Human Remains from Entombments in the Moscow Kremlin (Sixteenth - Early Seventeenth Century) T. D. Panova, A. Yu. Dmitriev, S. B. Borzakov and C. Hramco Chapter 10. Sawed Skulls - Archaeological Evidence of Medico-legal Autopsies in Finland Ulla Moilanen, Anne-Mari Liira, Heli Lehto, Kati Salo, Maija Helamaa, and Kari Uotila Afterword Milton Nunez Index

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This book full of case studies provides a small but important glimpse into how death, burial and memory are handled in the European north. Thomas Hoenigmann, Forensic Archaeology Working Group, Vienna

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Titta Kallio-Seppa (PhD) works as a Museum Director at the Museum of Tornio Valley, Finland. She specializes in historical archaeology, urban archaeology, dendrochronology, and material culture of churches.

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