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Public Memory in Early China
by Project Muse, Brashier, K. E.
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Changes in social organization can be studied through several different avenues one of which is through mortuary patterns. Here we will be looking at changes in social organization during the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age in Northern Europe using mortuary and osteological data. I…
Throughout the history of the Catholic Church, a belief in life after death has been one of the fundamental tenets of the faith. The goal of the laws of the Church has always been the salvation of souls and a crucial facet of that salvation includes the belief in the resurrectio…
This dissertation examines the “memory economy” of church reform from the late ninth through thirteenth centuries. It argues that monastic communities and aristocratic households of the period used the human body as a touchstone for the discussion of memory as a key stake in the…
This thesis investigates the death practices of liberal American Jews. Death is trending in contemporary American society. End-of-life planning, Medical Aid In Dying (MAID) legislation, the Death Positive movement, home funerals, green burial, cremation and new methods of dispos…
Children, Death and Burials assembles a panorama of studies with a focus on juvenile burials; the 16 papers have a wide geographic and temporal breadth and represent a range of methodological approaches. All have a similar objective in mind, however, namely to understand how chi…