Bereavement and commemoration : an archaeology of mortality

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Label

Bereavement and commemoration : an archaeology of mortality

Title remainder

an archaeology of mortality

Statement of responsibility

Sarah Tarlow

Creator

• Tarlow, Sarah, 1967-

Subject

• Archäologie
• Archäologie
• Archéologie sociale
• Begrafenissen
• Bestattung
• Bestattung
• Brauchtum
• Brauchtum
• Friedhof
• Friedhof
• Funeral rites and ceremonies
• Funeral rites and ceremonies
• Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Scotland | Orkney
• Geschichte
• Geschichte
• Manners and customs
• Mourning customs
• Mourning customs
• Mourning customs -- Scotland | Orkney
• Orcades (GB ; îles) -- Moeurs et coutumes
• Orkney (Scotland) -- Antiquities
• Orkney (Scotland) -- Social life and customs
• Orkneyinseln
• Orkneyinseln
• Riten
• Rites et cérémonies funéraires -- Rites et cérémonies -- Orcades (GB ; îles)
• Rouw
• Scotland -- Orkney
• Sepulchral monuments
• Sepulchral monuments -- Scotland | Orkney
• St. Magnus Cathedral (Kirkwall, Scotland)
• St. Magnus Cathedral (Kirkwall, Scotland)
• Totengedächtnis
• Totengedächtnis
• Antiquities

Language

eng

Summary

"In this book, Sarah Tarlow provides an innovative archaeology of bereavement, mortality and memory in the early modern and modern period. She draws on literary and historical sources as well as on material evidence to examine the evolution of attitudes towards death and commemoration over four centuries."--BOOK JACKET

Member of

• Social archaeology

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

index present

LC call number

DA880.O6

LC item number

T37 1999

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography