Edited
by Gordon F. M. Rakita,
Jane E. Buikstra,
Lane A. Beck,
and
Sloan R. Williams
University
Press of Florida
Gainesville/Tallahassee/Tampa/Boca Raton
Pensacola/Orlando/Miami/Jacksonville/Ft. Myers
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
Gordon F. M. Rakita and Jane E. Buikstra
Section
I. Theories, Time, and Space
Introduction by Gordon F. M. Rakita and Jane E. Buikstra
2. The Archaeology
of Death as Anthropology
Douglas K. Charles
3. Mortuary
Analysis: A Matter of Time?
Robert William Chapman
4. Gender
and Agency in Mortuary Fashion
Aubrey Cannon
5. Chiribaya
Political Economy: A Bioarchaeological Perspective
Jane E. Buikstra, Paula D. Tomczak, Maria Cecilia Lozada Cerna, and Gordon F.
M. Rakita
6. Social
Dimensions of Mortuary Space
Wendy Ashmore and Pamela L. Geller
Section
II. Bodies and Souls
Introduction by Gordon F. M. Rakita and Jane E. Buikstra
7. Corrupting
Flesh: Reexamining Hertz’s Perspective on Mummification and Cremation
Gordon F. M. Rakita and Jane E. Buikstra
8. Forgetting
the Dead, Remembering Enemies
Suzanne Oakdale
9. The Mortuary
“Laying-In” Crypts of the Hopewell Site: Beyond the Funerary Paradigm
A. Martin Byers
10. Mummies,
Cults, and Ancestors: The Chinchorro Mummies of the South Central Andes
Sonia E. Guillén
11. Secondary
Burial Practices in Hohokam Cremations
Lane A. Beck
12. Excarnation,
Evisceration, and Exhumation in Medieval and Post-Medieval Europe
Estella Weiss-Krejci
13. Death
and Remembrance in Medieval France: A Case Study from the Augustinian Monastery
of Saint-Jean-des-Vignes, Soissons
Stephan Naji
14. Mortuary
Practices and Ritual Use of Human Bone in Tibet
Nancy J. Malville
Section
III. Sacrifice, Violence, and Veneration
Introduction by Gordon F. M. Rakita and Jane E. Buikstra
15. Understanding
Veneration and Violation in the Archaeological Record
William N. Duncan
16. The
Bioarchaeology and Taphonomy of Mortuary Ritual on the Sepik Coast, Papua New
Guinea
Ann L. W. Stodder
17.Were
Nasca Trophy Heads War Trophies or Revered Ancestors?: Insights from the Kroeber
Collection
Kathleen Forgey and Sloan R. Williams
18. Human
Sacrifice and Postmortem Modification at the Pyramid of the Moon, Moche Valley,
Peru
John W. Verano
19. Mortuary
Pathways Leading to the Cenote at Chichén Itzá
Lane A. Beck and April K. Sievert
20. Putting
the Dead to Work: An Examination of the Use of Human Bone in Prehistoric Guam
Judith R. McNeill
References Cited
Index