Poetics of Processing
Subtitle: Memory Formation, Identity, and the Handling of the Dead
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781646420605
Description: "Examines complex cultural meanings of manipulation of remains after death and combines social theory and bioarchaeology to examine how the living manipulate the bodies of the dead for social purposes. From prehistoric to modern and old world to the new, humans have a relationship with the dead that doesn't cease with physical death"--