The second edition of From Dust to Ashes brings up-to-date this classic text investigating the replacement of burial by cremation in England an...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 08-Jul-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252046629)
An important presence through centuries of musical and social change, gamelan angklung is a small, four-tone bronze-keyed ensemble that remains ubiquitous at cremations in Bali. Ellen Koskoff offers a compelling portrait of these little-studied orche...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 08-Jul-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252088735)
An important presence through centuries of musical and social change, gamelan angklung is a small, four-tone bronze-keyed ensemble that remains ubiquitous at cremations in Bali. Ellen Koskoff offers a compelling portrait of these little-studied orch...Daugiau...
Papers focus on two central topics regarding past funerary behaviour in Central and South-Eastern Europe: cremation, and cause and time of death. Six studies relate to prehistory, from the Neolithic to Iron Age. Three more papers focus on the Roman A...Daugiau...
Marie Louise Stig Sųrensen, Katharina Rebay-Salisbury
(Išleidimo metai: 05-Jan-2023, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009247399)
This book offers case-based analyses of the introduction and eventual dominance of cremation in temperate Bronze Age Europe. In turn it questions the role of the familiar as a conservative force. It will be of interest to scholars and advanced studen...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 19-Mar-2019, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, ISBN-13: 9783700183310)
This volume examines the formation and development of Saiva tantric funerary practices and rituals of post-mortem ancestor worship (sraddha) as preserved in the earliest extant strata of textual sources. These tantric scriptures and ritual manuals of...Daugiau...
First comprehensive study of the processes, ritual and practices involved in the cremation of human bodies and the methodologies that can be applied to the study of cremated human remains. Human societies have disposed of their dead in a vari...Daugiau...
This study suggests strong continuities in language since the Paleolithic, taking the case of Scotland. Using every scrap of available evidence, the author reconstructs the meaning of particular places - Annats. In this way, this painstaking study gi...Daugiau...
Cremation, as a means of managing the post-mortem body, was reintroduced to Europe at the end of the eighteenth century, but would not become common practice until the second half of the nineteenth century. This was a major development, with multifa...Daugiau...
Not until the 1990s did scholars show much interest in the history of cremation in Britain, and none so far have focused on the changing architecture of crematoria. Being a specialist in that very thing, Grainger (fashion, U. of the Arts, London) tra...Daugiau...
Two extended papers which employ experimental methodologies. In the first analysis of a series of fully monitored experimental cremation pyres is used to supplement the interpretation of burnt pyre-bases, and other archaeological fea...Daugiau...
Seventy per cent of British families now choose cremation for their funerals, a rapid change in traditional death customs. This is the first book to investigate why cremation replaced burial. It examines the political, religious, economic a...Daugiau...
Former columnist for the New York Times and author of 13 books, Rosen (criminal justice, Ulster County Community College) offers what he is pretty sure is the first popular history of cremation in the US. He delves into such issues as why so many p...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Nov-2002, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520236882)
Just one hundred years ago, Americans almost universally condemned cremation. Today, nearly one-quarter of Americans choose to be cremated. The practice has gained wide acceptance as a funeral rite, in both our private and public lives, as the cremat...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Feb-2001, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520208162)
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Just one hundred years ago, Americans almost universally condemned cremation. Today, nearly one-quarter of Americans choose to be cremated. The practice has gained wide acceptance as a funeral rite, in both our private and public lives, as the cremat...Daugiau...
