
Archaeologists and the Dead
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- Foreword
- 1: Melanie Giles and Howard Williams: Introduction: Mortuary Archaeology in Contemporary Society
- Part 1: Investigating The Dead
- 2: Sian Anthony: Questions Raised in Excavating the Recent Dead
- 3: John McClelland and Jessica Cerezo-Román: Personhood and Re-Embodiment in Osteological Practice
- 4: Ulla Rajala: Separating the Emotions: Archaeological Mentalities in Central Italian Funerary Archaeology
- 5: Andrew Pearson and Ben Jeffs: Slave Trade Archaeology and the Public: The Excavation of a 'Liberated African' Graveyard on St Helena
- 6: Martin Brown: Habeas Corpus: Contested Ownership of Casualties of The Great War
- 7: Faye Sayer and Duncan Sayer: Bones Without Barriers: The Social Impact of Digging the Dead
- Part 2: Displaying the Dead
- 8: Hedley Swain: Museum Practice and the Display of Human Remains
- 9: Sarah Tatham: Displaying the Dead: The English Heritage Experience
- 10: Nina Nordström: The Immortals: Prehistoric Individuals as Ideological and Therapeutic Tools in our Time
- 11: Karen Exell: Covering the Mummies at the Manchester Museum: A Discussion of Authority, Authorship and Agendas in the Human Remains Debate
- 12: Tiffany Jenkins: Making an Exhibition of Ourselves: Using the Dead to Fight the Battles of the Living
- 13: Liv Nilsson Stutz: To Gaze Upon The Dead: The Exhibition of Human Remains as Cultural Practice and Political Process In Scandinavia and the United States
- 14: Howard Williams: Firing the Imagination: Cremation in the Museum
- Part 3: Public Mortuary Archaeology
- 15: William Rathouse: Contemporary Pagans and the Study of the Ancestors
- 16: Estella Weiss-Krejci: 'Tomb to Give Away': The Significance of Graves and Dead Bodies in Present-Day Austria
- 17: Duncan Sayer and Tony Walter: Digging The Dead in a Digital Media Age
- 18: Trevor Kirk: Writing About Death, Mourning and Emotion: Archaeology and Creativity
- 19: Melanie Giles: Reconstructing Death: The Chariot Burials of Iron Age East Yorkshire
- 20: Lynn Goldstein: Reflections on Intersections of Mortuary Archaeology and Contemporary Society
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