Transforming the Dead: Culturally Modified Bone in the Prehistoric Midwest
Editat de Eve A. Hargrave, Shirley J. Schermer, Kristin M. Hedman, Robin M. Lillie Contribuţii de Kathleen T Blue, Christopher Carr, Dawn E Cobb, Della Collins Cook, Paul D Emanovsky, Cheryl A Johnston, Anne B. Lee, Cheryl Ann Munson, Stephen P Nawrocki, Anna Novotny, Mary Lucas Powell, Maria Ostendorf Smith, Dr Linea Sundstrom Ph.D., Katie J. Zejdliken Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 mai 2015
Most research addressing modified human bone has focused on cut marks and trauma associated with warfare, trophy taking, and burial practices. The editors and contributors of Transforming the Dead document the varied and often overlooked ways that human bone was intentionally modified through drilling, incising, cutting, and polishing for utilitarian, ornamental, spiritual, or ritual use. Examples include bracelets and gorgets to be worn, as well as musical rasps, pipe stems, masks, and protective talismans. The form and function of these objects are not unusual; their construction from the remains of “another” sets them apart.
Through a flexible but systematic analysis of the archaeological record, the contributors bring into focus how the careful selection, modification, and retention of particular bones or body parts of an individual after death offer insights into concepts of personhood, the body, life, and death among the prehistoric Native Americans in the Midwest.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780817318611
ISBN-10: 0817318615
Pagini: 384
Ilustrații: 64 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.74 kg
Ediția:First Edition, First Edition
Editura: University Of Alabama Press
Colecția University Alabama Press
ISBN-10: 0817318615
Pagini: 384
Ilustrații: 64 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.74 kg
Ediția:First Edition, First Edition
Editura: University Of Alabama Press
Colecția University Alabama Press
Notă biografică
Eve A. Hargrave is a public engagement coordinator and skeletal biologist at the Illinois State Archaeological Survey and coauthor of Recent Investigations into the Late Prehistoric Mortuary Behavior: The Halliday Site. Shirley J. Schermer is a former director of the Burials Program for the Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist and author of Discovering Archaeology: An Activity Guide for Educators. Kristin M. Hedman is an associate director of the Ancient Technologies and Archaeological Materials Program, and skeletal biologist at the Illinois State Archaeological Survey and coauthor of Hill Prairie Mounds: The Osteology of a Late Middle Mississippian Mortuary Population. Robin M. Lillie is a skeletal biologist for the Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist Burials Program and coauthor of Dubuque’s Forgotten Cemetery: Excavating a Nineteenth-Century Burial Ground in a Twenty-First-Century City.
Recenzii
“… a superb resource for professionals and students alike…. The editors and authors of this volume venture beyond descriptions of modified human bone that are argued as ‘transforming the dead’; they transform our discourse of both the living and the dead.”
—Journal of the Iowa Archeological Society
“In the seminal The Taking and Displaying of Human Body Parts as Trophies by Amerindians, editors Richard Chacon and David Dye demonstrated that prehistoric and historic Native Americans cut off and displayed human body parts. Transforming the Dead now shows the other side of the coin: that human bone was used in everyday life and special rituals in prehistoric Native American culture. No other book on the market presents what these authors have.”
—Keith Jacobi, author of Last Rites for the Tipu Maya: Genetic Structuring in a Colonial Cemetery
—Journal of the Iowa Archeological Society
“In the seminal The Taking and Displaying of Human Body Parts as Trophies by Amerindians, editors Richard Chacon and David Dye demonstrated that prehistoric and historic Native Americans cut off and displayed human body parts. Transforming the Dead now shows the other side of the coin: that human bone was used in everyday life and special rituals in prehistoric Native American culture. No other book on the market presents what these authors have.”
—Keith Jacobi, author of Last Rites for the Tipu Maya: Genetic Structuring in a Colonial Cemetery
“Transforming the Dead encourages its readers to think in a broader perspective—outside of western normative dualities like life and death, the physical world, and the spiritual world.”
—Debra L. Martin, coeditor of Bioarchaeology: An Integrated Approach to Working with Human Remains and Bioarchaeological and Forensic Perspectives on Violence: How Violent Death is Interpreted from Skeletal Remains
—Debra L. Martin, coeditor of Bioarchaeology: An Integrated Approach to Working with Human Remains and Bioarchaeological and Forensic Perspectives on Violence: How Violent Death is Interpreted from Skeletal Remains
Descriere
The essays in Transforming the Dead: Culturally Modified Bone in the Prehistoric Midwest explore the numerous ways that Eastern Woodland Native Americans selected, modified, and used human bones as tools, trophies, ornaments, and other objects imbued with cultural significance in daily life and rituals.