TY - BOOK ID - 101525564 TI - Interdisciplinary Explorations of Postmortem Interaction : Dead Bodies, Funerary Objects, and Burial Spaces Through Texts and Time AU - Weiss-Krejci, Estella. AU - Becker, Sebastian. AU - Schwyzer, Philip. PY - 2022 SN - 3031039564 3031039556 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Archaeology KW - Anthropology KW - Literature: history & criticism KW - mortuary archaeology KW - dead-body politics KW - memory studies KW - agency of the dead KW - archaeological theory KW - literary studies KW - medieval relics KW - mass graves KW - burial monuments KW - prehistoric graves KW - History of Egyptian Sepulchral Monuments KW - Iron Age in Northern Central Europe KW - Historic Sources about the Uses of the Dead KW - Literary Tombs in the Twelfth Century KW - Archaeological Traces in Beowulf KW - National Identity through Merovingian Burials KW - Skeletal Remains of Saint Erik KW - Dissolving Subjects in Medieval Reliquaries KW - Shakespearean Exhumations KW - Archaeology. KW - Physical anthropology. KW - Literature KW - Physical-Biological Anthropology. KW - Literary History. KW - History and criticism. KW - Appraisal of books KW - Books KW - Evaluation of literature KW - Criticism KW - Literary style KW - Biological anthropology KW - Somatology KW - Human biology KW - Archeology KW - Auxiliary sciences of history KW - History KW - Antiquities KW - Appraisal KW - Evaluation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101525564 AB - In the present as in the past, the dead have been deployed to promote visions of identity, as well as ostensibly wider human values. Through a series of case studies from ancient Egypt through prehistoric, historic, and present-day Europe, this book discusses what is constant and what is locally and historically specific in our ways of interacting with the remains of the dead, their objects, and monuments. Postmortem interaction encompasses not only funerary rituals and intergenerational engagement with forebears, but also concerns encounters with the dead who died centuries and millennia ago. Drawing from a variety of disciplines such as archaeology, bioarchaeology, literary studies, ancient Egyptian philology, and sociocultural anthropology, this volume provides an interdisciplinary account of the ways in which the dead are able to transcend temporal distances and engender social relationships. Until quite recently, literary sciences and archaeology were generally regarded as incommensurable in their aims, methodologies, and source material. Although archaeologists and literary critics have been increasingly willing to borrow concepts and terminology from the other discipline, this book is one examples of a genuinely collaborative endeavor. This is an open access book. ER -