Mortuary ritual and society in Bronze Age Cyprus
By: Priscilla Keswani.
Series: Monographs in Mediterranean archaeology
Publisher: Equinox Pub.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London; Oakville, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
Subjects: Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Cyprus -- History.; Cyprus -- Social life and customs.; Cyprus -- Antiquities.
Description: "Mortuary Ritual and Society in Bronze Age Cyprus is a ground-breaking investigation of burial practices and social transformations in the era when Cypriot agricultural communities moved from village to urban life and became major players in the eastern Mediterranean copper trade." "Confronting the many interpretive challenges posed by tombs used for multiple interments, the author develops an innovative theoretical and methodological approach that enables her to define and elucidate the shifting spatial relationships between tombs and habitation areas, the elaboration of rituals involving secondary treatment and collective burial, and changing patterns of mortuary expenditure and symbolism throughout the Bronze Age."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-185) and index.
Table of contents: title: The ethnological foundations of mortuary analysis; title: The processual approach to mortuary variability; title: The post-processual critique and ethnographic examples; title: Towards an interpretive rapprochement (1) : balancing multiple lines of evidence; title: Towards an interpretive rapprochement (2) : understanding mortuary ritual as a dynamic cultural system; title: Formal cemeteries, descent groups, property, resources, and identity; title: Mortuary elaboration and secondary treatment; title: Secondary treatment and collective burial; title: Long-term variations in mortuary elaboration; title: Mortuary ritual and society reconsidered; title: Post-depositional processes affecting the preservation of collective tombs and other mortuary features in Cyprus; title: Past and present approaches to the excavation and study of Bronze Age tombs in Cyprus; title: Sampling issues : problems of regional, chronological, and local coverage; title: Towards a methodology for the interpretation of collective burial practices; title: Reconstructing programs of mortuary treatment in collective burial groups; title: Interpreting the relationship between tomb groups and social groups; title: Interpreting variations in wealth and social prestige; title: The spatial dimensions of Early-Middle Bronze Age mortuary practice; title: Programs of mortuary ritual; title: Bellapais Vounous; title: Lapithos Vrysi tou Barba; title: Middle Cypriot tombs at Ayios Iakovos Melia; title: Korovia Paleoskoutella; title: Evidence for secondary treatment of the dead at other sites; title: Ritual practices and ideology; title: The grouping of the dead; title: Regional and diachronic patterns in burial group composition; title: Tomb groups and social groups in EC-MC Cyprus; title: The origins and elaboration of the EC-MC chamber tomb tradition; title: Local and regional diversity in EC-MC tomb architecture; title: Variations, elaborations, and convergences in tomb architecture; title: EC-MC grave goods and the symbolism of prestige; title: Burial assemblages at Bellapais Vounous; title: Burial assemblages at Lapithos Vrysi tou Barba; title: Burial assemblages at other sites; title: Mortuary display and social structure; title: Foreign valuables and the changing construction of prestige; title: The spatial dimensions of Late Cypriot mortuary practice; title: Programs of mortuary ritual; title: Northwestern sites; title: Late Cypriot tombs at Ayios Iakovos Melia and other northeastern sites; title: Enkomi Ayios Iakovos; title: Southeastern sites; title: Kalavasos; title: Kourion and other southwestern sites; title: Ritual practices and ideology; title: The grouping of the dead; title: A regional overview of burial group composition; title: Tomb groups and social groups in long-term perspective; title: Variability and change in Late Cypriot tomb architecture; title: Northern sites; title: Enkomi Ayios Iakovos; title: Southern sites; title: The social dimensions of diminishing architectural expenditure; title: Changing patterns of mortuary expenditure and status symbolism in grave goods; title: Burial complements of the early LCI-LCII periods; title: Enkomi Ayios Iakovos; title: LCI-LCIII assemblages from the south coast; title: Inland sites; title: Foreign valuables and the symbolism of prestige; title: Mortuary practices and social structure in the Late Bronze Age; title: The social context of EC-MC mortuary ritual; title: The EC-MC funeral and social change; title: Urbanization and changes in social structure during the Late Bronze Age; title: The social dynamics of Late Bronze Age mortuary ritual; title: Realizing the potential of mortuary analysis-methodological imperatives and directions for future research.