Performing death [Texte imprimé] : social analyses of funerary traditions in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean / edited by Nicola Laneri ; with contributions by Ellen F. Morris, Glenn M. Schwartz, Robert Chapman... [et al.]

Proceedings from the 2nd annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute seminar held at the Oriental Institute , February 17-18, 2006

Notes bibliogr.

An archaeology of funerary rituals / Nicola Laneri -- Sacrifice for the state / E.F. Morris -- Status, ideology, and memory in third-millennium Syria / G.M. Schwartz -- Mortuary rituals, social relations, and identity in southeast Spain in the late third to early second millennia B.C. / Robert Chapman -- Combined efforts till death / Massimo Cultraro -- Remembering and forgetting in early bronze age mortuary practices on the southeastern Dead Sea plain, Jordan / M.S. Chesson -- Etruscan style of dying / Alessandro Naso -- The politics of loss / Adam T. Smith -- Sumerian funerary rituals in context / Dina Katz -- Death and dismemberment in Mesopotamia / Seth Richardson -- Death of a household / Susan Pollock -- Achilles and the sallis wastais ritual / Ian Rutherford -- Ritualizing death in Republican Rome / John Pollini -- Burial treatment as transformations of bodily ideology / John Robb -- Mortuary practices for the third millennium : 1966-2000 / James A. Brown