This title was published using private funds and is not an official U.S. government publication. The Superintendent of Documents number: SI 1.60:D 34 has been canceled and removed from this record. GPO Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Where now? Future agendas in historic mortuary culture studies / Harold Mytum and Laurie Burgess. Candied fruit or carrionlie carkase? Beliefs about the dead body in early modern Britain / Sarah Tarlow -- Dressing for the grave: the archaeological evidence for the preparation and presentation of the corpse in post-medieval England / Annia Kristina Cherryson -- In the footsteps of Thomas Hardy: archaeology and exhumation at St. Pancras Burial Ground, London / Phillip A. Emery -- Explaining stylistic change in mortuary material culture: the dynamic of power relations between the bereaved and the undertaker / Harold Mytum -- Remember man thou are dust: a retrospective on North American hardware traditions / Michael Trinkley and Debi Hacker -- A preliminary seriation of coffin hardware in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Georgia: thirty years later / Patrick H. Garrow -- The need for greater precision in mortuary hardware terminology / Roderick Sprague -- Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century coffin furniture from St. George's Crypt, Bloomsbury, and the Churchyard and Crypt of St. Luke's, Islington / Louise Loe and Ceridwen Boston -- Burial at the edge of the Empire and beyond: the divergent histories of coffin furniture and casket hardware / Megan E. Springate and Hilda Maclean -- "Making a box worthy of a Sleeping Beauty": burial container surface treatments in the United States during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Jeremy W. Pye -- Body snatchers and mortsafes: an archaeology of fear / Harold Mytum and Katie Webb -- Death, dogs, and monuments: recent research at Washington's Congressional Cemetery / Laurie Burgess and Douglas W. Owsley -- Lost governors, iron coffins, and driven descendants / Charles R. Ewen and Sheri B. Crane -- Where now? Future agendas in historic mortuary culture studies / Harold Mytum and Laurie Burgess.
Summary:
"Death Across Oceans" brings together the leading researchers in historic mortuary practice from Britain, North America, and Australia. It is the first book dedicated to the material culture associated with burial in the historic, English-speaking world. It combines reflections and evaluations from the pioneer scholars who initiated research in this field during the 1980s with studies by young scholars now pushing the research into a new and wider range of issues. This volume will be the seminal work in this field for some time, providing key analyses and essential bibliographic routes into site-specific literature, and setting the research agenda for the future.--Provided by publisher.
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