Kin Groups Nad Mortuary Practices
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Kin Groups And Mortuary Practices
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Author : Robert George Kingsley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
Kin Groups And Mortuary Practices written by Robert George Kingsley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Archaeology categories.
Kin Groups Nad Mortuary Practices
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Author : Robert George Kingsley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
Kin Groups Nad Mortuary Practices written by Robert George Kingsley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with categories.
Mississippian Mortuary Practices
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Author : Lynne P. Sullivan
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2010-04-18
Mississippian Mortuary Practices written by Lynne P. Sullivan and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-18 with Social Science categories.
The residents of Mississippian towns principally located in the southeastern and midwestern United States from 900 to1500 A.D. made many beautiful objects, which included elaborate and well-crafted copper and shell ornaments, pottery vessels, and stonework. Some of these objects were socially valued goods and often were placed in ritual context, such as graves. The funerary context of these artifacts has sparked considerable study and debate among archaeologists, raising questions about the place in society of the individuals interred with such items, as well as the nature of the societies in which these people lived. By focusing on how mortuary practices serve as symbols of beliefs and values for the living, the contributors to Mississippian Mortuary Practices explore how burial of the dead reflects and reinforces the cosmology of specific cultures, the status of living participants in the burial ceremony, ongoing kin relationships, and other aspects of social organization.
Kinship And Religious Identities In Medieval Central Asia 8th 13th C Ce
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Author : Elissa Anne Bullion
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Kinship And Religious Identities In Medieval Central Asia 8th 13th C Ce written by Elissa Anne Bullion and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Electronic dissertations categories.
Ethnic, political, and religious upheaval has cascading impacts on social identity. Kinship and religious ritual are two sources of social identity that are particularly salient in periods of change. Their practice provides access to and protection of important social, economic, and ideological resources that help groups negotiate times of uncertainty. During the medieval period (8th-13th c. CE), Central Asia saw the invasion of Arab armies, the rise of Turkic political dynasties, and the spread of Islam. This period yielded a Turko-Islamic culture that pervades modern dialogues on Central Asian history and culture. The local and regional social systems that sustained the spread of ethnic and religious identities during the medieval period, however, remain poorly understood. This dissertation investigates mortuary ritual and biological affinity in medieval (8th-13th century) Central Asian populations to document the practice of social identity across diverse populations during this period of dramatic change. This thesis represents the first comprehensive bioarchaeological study of medieval Central Asian populations. Mortuary and cranial shape data were obtained from nineteen sites dating between the 7th and 14th c. CE located in modern-day Uzbekistan. Data collection was comprised of three years of research at the archives and osteological collections of the Institute of Samarkand and cemetery excavations at the site of Tashbulak in southeastern Uzbekistan. In this study, I analyze spatial organization, architecture, and body treatment in burials, as well as geometric morphometric analysis of three-dimensional cranial landmark data. I interpret my results as reflecting kinship and mortuary communities-of-practice and examine how these social identity practices reflect or refute previous historical narratives about ethnic and religious identity. I demonstrate that populations in medieval Uzbekistan buried their dead according to Islamic funerary prescriptions across diverse geographic and social settings. I identify seven sets of burial practice within these prescriptions that are practiced at local and regional scales. Biological affinity analysis demonstrates shared genetic background of populations at study sites, with overlapping variation at all sites. I find no evidence of genetically based ethnic groups or differential practice of Islam across rural and urban contexts, as historical documents from this period would suggest. Instead, my data speak to an integrated social landscape, within which Islamic was broadly practiced, and genetic relatedness did not act as a reproductive boundary. I argue that increasing urbanism and reliance on market economies could have promoted shared identity and genetic homogeneity, through integration of urban and rural sites into a system that promoted participation in a non-kin-based economy, in which conversion to Islam was rewarded with monetary and social capital. Within this regional homogeneity, however, there is local diversity in both the mortuary and biological affinity record. People practiced a variety of architectural and body positioning traditions within overarching Islamic prescriptions. Genetically, individuals do not consistently cluster most closely with individuals from the same site. Medieval Central Asian populations therefore, engaged in social lives derived from shared institutional pressures, but through which groups also expressed a variety of identities that they carried between sites, across diverse geographic and social contexts.
Funerary Practices And Models In The Ancient Andes
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Author : Peter Eeckhout
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-03-02
Funerary Practices And Models In The Ancient Andes written by Peter Eeckhout and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-02 with History categories.
This edited volume focuses on the funerary archaeology of the Pan-Andean area in the pre-Hispanic period. The contributors examine the treatment of the dead and provide an understanding of how these ancient groups coped with mortality, as well as the ways in which they strove to overcome the effects of death. The contributors also present previously unpublished discoveries and employ a range of academic and analytical approaches that have rarely - if ever - been utilised in South America before. The book covers the Formative Period to the end of the Inca Empire, and the chapters together comprise a state-of-the-art summary of all the best research on Andean funerary archaeology currently being carried out around the globe.
Mississippian Mortuary Practices
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Author : Lynne P. Sullivan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Mississippian Mortuary Practices written by Lynne P. Sullivan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Indians of North America categories.
The residents of Mississippian towns principally located in the southeastern and midwestern United States from 900 to1500 A.D. made many beautiful objects, which included elaborate and well-crafted copper and shell ornaments, pottery vessels, and stonework. Some of these objects were socially valued goods and often were placed in ritual context, such as graves. The funerary context of these artifacts has sparked considerable study and debate among archaeologists, raising questions about the place in society of the individuals interred with such items, as well as the nature of the societies i.
Mortality Mourning And Mortuary Practices In Indigenous Australia
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Author : Myrna Tonkinson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-03-02
Mortality Mourning And Mortuary Practices In Indigenous Australia written by Myrna Tonkinson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-02 with Social Science categories.
Drawing on ethnography of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia, Mortality, Mourning and Mortuary Practices in Indigenous Australia focuses on the current ways in which indigenous people confront and manage various aspects of death. The contributors employ their contemporary and long-term anthropological fieldwork with indigenous Australians to construct rich accounts of indigenous practices and beliefs and to engage with questions relating to the frequent experience of death within the context of unprecedented change and premature mortality. The volume makes use of extensive empirical material to address questions of inequality with specific reference to mortality, thus contributing to the anthropology of indigenous Australia whilst attending to its theoretical, methodological and political concerns. As such, it will appeal not only to anthropologists but also to those interested in social inequality, the social and psychosocial consequences of death, and the conceptualization and manipulation of the relationships between the living and the dead.
Mortuary Practices In The Process Of Levantine Neolithisation
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Author : Constantinos Koutsadelis
language : en
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Release Date : 2007
Mortuary Practices In The Process Of Levantine Neolithisation written by Constantinos Koutsadelis and has been published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
This book examines mortuary practices in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) (ca 10,000-7,000 BC) and early Pottery Neolithic (PN) (ca 7,000-6,000 BC) Levant. The great transformation of economic structures taking place in this period in the Levant was accompanied by a remarkable abundance and elaboration of ideologic/symbolic expressions, many related to the deceased. The author here explores the possible meanings and functions of mortuary practices, with the ultimate aim of better understanding the ideologic foundations of the process of Levantine Neolithisation. The work places the PPN mortuary practices in their wider economic, social and ideologic/symbolic context, with emphasis on the latter, and examines their chronological development and general cultural framework. Finally, the author investigates whether they reflected systematic social differentiations, their social base of organisation and their possible symbolic meanings and functions, offering potential interpretations against a theoretical background.
Mortuary Differentiation And Social Structure In The Middle Helladic Argolid 2000 1500 B C
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Author : Eleni Milka
language : en
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2023-04-13
Mortuary Differentiation And Social Structure In The Middle Helladic Argolid 2000 1500 B C written by Eleni Milka and has been published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-13 with Social Science categories.
In this volume the archaeological, anthropological and radiocarbon data from selected sites of the Middle Helladic period are integrated to determine if there was variation between individual burials, groupings and cemeteries and to reconstruct change through time. This work was done for selective Argive sites, namely Lerna, Asine and Aspis.
The Chinese Neolithic
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Author : Li Liu
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-01-06
The Chinese Neolithic written by Li Liu and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-06 with Social Science categories.
This book studies the formation of complex societies in prehistoric China during the Neolithic and early state periods, c. 7000–1500 BC. Archaeological materials are interpreted through anthropological perspectives, using systematic analytic methods in settlement and burial patterns. Both agency and process are considered in the development of chiefdoms and in the emergence of early states in the Yellow River region. Interrelationships between factors such as mortuary practice, craft specialization, ritual activities, warfare, exchange of elite goods, climatic fluctuations, and environmental changes are emphasized. This study offers a critical evaluation of current archaeological data from Chinese sources, and argues that, although some general tendencies are noted, social changes were affected by multiple factors in no pre-determined sequence. In this most comprehensive study to date, Li Liu attempts to reconstruct developmental trajectories toward early states in Chinese civilization and discusses theoretical implications of Chinese archaeology for the understanding of social evolution.