Moralities of Dress and the Dress of the Dead in Early Medieval Europe

Bazelmans, J.G.A.

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“…The display of weapons formed part of a 'tableau' composed using the dead body and artefacts. This 'symbolic text' was intended to be 'read' by mourners and onlookers as part of a ritual performance and social display (Barrett, 1994;Bazelmans, 2002;Carver, 2000;Geake, 2003;Halsall, 1998Halsall, , 2003Pader, 1982;Whitley, 2002). Yet equally important for remembrance was the relative brevity of the display, what Guy Halsall has referred to as the 'scene-making' quality of furnished burial rites (Halsall, 1998;2003: 68).…”

Section: ■ Weapons In Early Anglo-saxon Inhumation Gravesmentioning

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Keeping the dead at arm’s length

Williams

2005

Journal of Social Archaeology

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Archaeologists have identified two kinds of furnished graves dating to the late fifth and sixth centuries AD from southern and eastern England: inhumation and cremation. While the ‘weapon burial rite’ is a frequent occurrence for inhumation graves, weapons are rarely found in cinerary urns. This article argues that this divergence may relate to the contrasting roles of cremation and inhumation as mortuary technologies of remembrance linked to alternative strategies for managing the powerful mnemonic agency of weapons.

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Section: ■ Weapons In Early Anglo-saxon Inhumation Gravesmentioning

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Keeping the dead at arm’s length

Williams

2005

Journal of Social Archaeology

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Archaeology of Embodied Subjectivities

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Joyce²

2012

A Companion to Gender Prehistory

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Agency and personhood at the onset of the Mycenaean period

Voutsaki¹

2010

Arch. Dial.

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This paper offers a critical evaluation of the debate on agency and personhood in archaeology. Despite some very interesting and sharp discussions, the debate has suffered from the projection of anachronistic definitions of the person and an overreliance on specific ethnographic readings. In addition, little attempt is made to integrate abstract theoretical discussions with close analyses of empirical data. I would like to suggest that this should be our priority. In the second part of the paper, I will apply these ideas by examining notions of personhood and agency held by the inhabitants of the southern Greek mainland between ca 1800 and 1600 B.C. The analysis will be based on the mortuary practices and imagery of the period.

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Moralities of Dress and the Dress of the Dead in Early Medieval Europe

Cited by 8 publications

References 5 publications

Keeping the dead at arm’s length

Keeping the dead at arm’s length

Archaeology of Embodied Subjectivities

Agency and personhood at the onset of the Mycenaean period

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