Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World 'Death Shall Have No Dominion'
Book contents
- Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World
- Frontispiece
- Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1 ‘The Unanswered Question’: Investigating Early Conceptualisations of Death
- Part I Intimations of Mortality
- Part II Mortality and the Foundations of Human Society: Sedentism and the Collective
- Part III Constructing the Ancestors
- Chapter 10 Constructing Ancestors in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Chapter 11 Different Kinds of Dead: Presencing Andean Expired Beings
- Chapter 12 Putting Death in Its Place: The Idea of the Cemetery
- Chapter 13 Becoming Mycenaean? The Living, the Dead, and the Ancestors in the Transformation of Society in Second Millennium BC Southern Greece
- Part IV Death, Hierarchy, and the Social Order
- Part V Materiality and Memory
- Part VI Intimations of Immortality: Glimpsing Other Worlds
- Part VII Responses and Reactions: Concluding Thoughts
- Index
- References
Chapter 11 - Different Kinds of Dead: Presencing Andean Expired Beings
from Part III - Constructing the Ancestors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2015
Book contents
- Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World
- Frontispiece
- Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1 ‘The Unanswered Question’: Investigating Early Conceptualisations of Death
- Part I Intimations of Mortality
- Part II Mortality and the Foundations of Human Society: Sedentism and the Collective
- Part III Constructing the Ancestors
- Chapter 10 Constructing Ancestors in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Chapter 11 Different Kinds of Dead: Presencing Andean Expired Beings
- Chapter 12 Putting Death in Its Place: The Idea of the Cemetery
- Chapter 13 Becoming Mycenaean? The Living, the Dead, and the Ancestors in the Transformation of Society in Second Millennium BC Southern Greece
- Part IV Death, Hierarchy, and the Social Order
- Part V Materiality and Memory
- Part VI Intimations of Immortality: Glimpsing Other Worlds
- Part VII Responses and Reactions: Concluding Thoughts
- Index
- References
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