Mortuary Monuments and Burial Grounds of the Historic Period (Manuals in Archaeological Method, Theory and Technique)

Mortuary Monuments And Burial Grounds Of The Historic Period Will Be An Incomparable Resource For Academic Archaeologists, Cultural Resource Management Archaeologists, Government Heritage Agencies, And Upper-level Undergraduate And Graduate Students Of Archaeology With Classes In Mortuary Behavior, Or Who Are Studying The Historic Or Post-medieval Period. It Will Also Be Valuable To Cemetery Managers, Forensic Researchers, Anthropologists, Cultural Geographers, Folklorists, And Social Historians.--jacket. Introduction -- 1. Brief History Historical Mortuary Archaeology -- 2. Theoretical Approaches -- 3. Summary -- Folk Traditions And High Culture: Funerary And Commemorative Practice To The Early 18th Century -- 1. Death -- 2. Funeral -- 3. Burial Grounds -- 4. Internal Memorials -- 5. External Memorials -- Maturing Industry: The Mid-18th Century To Early 20th Century -- 1. Funeral -- 2. Mourning -- 3. Commemoration -- 4. Burial Grounds And Cemeteries -- 5. Internal Memorials -- 6. External Memorials -- 7. Decoration And Symbols -- 8. Text -- Marginalized Activity: From After World War I -- 1. Funeral -- 2. Mourning -- 3. Commemoration -- 4. Burial Grounds And Cemeteries -- 5. Internal Memorials -- 6. External Memorials -- Production And Consumption -- 1. Funerary And Mourning Paraphernalia -- 2. Commemoration -- 3. Temporal Change -- 4. Spatial Change -- Social Structures -- 1. Relationship Between Living Communities And Burial Ground Populations -- 2. Status -- 3. Family Structures -- 4. Institutional Structures -- 5. Patterns Of Dependency -- 6. Social Hierarchies -- 7. Necrogeography -- 8. Emulation -- Identities -- 1. Religious Affiliation -- 2. Ethnicity -- 3. Linguistic Group -- 4. Vocational Identity -- Attitudes Toward Death, The Body And Remembrance -- 1. Manner Of Death -- 2. Attitudes Toward The Body -- 3. Grave Refurbishment -- Carrying Out A Study -- 1. Methodological Issues -- 2. Project Fieldwork Planning -- 3. Sampling -- 4. Harold Mytum. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 235-260) And Index.