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Title:
Death across oceans : archaeology of coffins and vaults in Britain, America, and Australia / edited by Harold Mytum and Laurie Burgess.
Author:
Mytum, Harold, 1955- editor.

Burgess, Laurie E., editor.

Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, publisher.

Smithsonian Institution.
Publication Information:
Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2018.
Call Number:
GT3150 .D396 2018
Abstract:
"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.
ISBN:
9781944466152
Series:
A Smithsonian contribution to knowledge

Smithsonian contribution to knowledge.
Physical Description:
vi, 320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm.
General Note:
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.
Contents:
United in death? A comparative introduction to historic mortuary culture / Candied fruit or carrionlie carkase? Beliefs about the dead body in early modern Britain / Dressing for the grave: the archaeological evidence for the preparation and presentation of the corpse in post-medieval England / In the footsteps of Thomas Hardy: archaeology and exhumation at St. Pancras Burial Ground, London / Explaining stylistic change in mortuary material culture: the dynamic of power relations between the bereaved and the undertaker / Remember man thou are dust: a retrospective on North American hardware traditions / A preliminary seriation of coffin hardware in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Georgia: thirty years later / The need for greater precision in mortuary hardware terminology / Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century coffin furniture from St. George's Crypt, Bloomsbury, and the Churchyard and Crypt of St. Luke's, Islington / Burial at the edge of the Empire and beyond: the divergent histories of coffin furniture and casket hardware / "Making a box worthy of a Sleeping Beauty": burial container surface treatments in the United States during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Body snatchers and mortsafes: an archaeology of fear / Death, dogs, and monuments: recent research at Washington's Congressional Cemetery / Lost governors, iron coffins, and driven descendants / Where now? Future agendas in historic mortuary culture studies
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