Sarah Tarlow
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 166944 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sarah Tarlow |
| PRENOMES | Sarah |
| SOBRENOME | Tarlow |
| ASSINATURA | TARLOW S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-5468-9137 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 299 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Ethical entanglements
The ethical treatment of human remains after excavation is a core debate in archaeology. This project explores the treatment of human remains in some European museums with an aim to support open discussion of complex ethical issues among research and heritage professionals involved in the care of human remains
The Names of the Dead
One of the foundational principles of modern medical ethics is the maintenance of anonymity in the case of researching human material and in disseminating that research. This principle safeguards the privacy of living human subjects, and minimizes the prejudicial effect that personal knowledge might have on the researcher. Does this principle transfer to human material in museum contexts, especially when human remains are on public display? Many …
Reformation and Transformation
This chapter addresses the Reformation as a very long-term process, and will not generally distinguish various episodes of destruction. The Reformation was not a single event, nor even a number of events, but a process which transformed British religious practice, and redefined relations of power, over more than a century. The theological issues confronted by philosophers and clerics of the Reformation were numerous and subtle, but in practice mo…
Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse
This open access book is the culmination of many years of research on what happened to the bodies of executed criminals in the past. Focusing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it looks at the consequences of the 1752 Murder Act. These criminal bodies had a crucial role in the history of medicine, and the history of crime, and great symbolic resonance in literature and popular culture. Starting with a consideration of the criminal corpse…
Folk Beliefs and Popular Tales
Despite their relatively small number, the bodies of executed criminals exercised an impressive hold over the imaginations of writers, artists and storytellers. This chapter considers the range of artistic and creative afterlives of criminal bodies. Some criminals and their ends were remembered in anonymous folk ballads or ghoulish stories; others featured in works of published literature or art. The theatre of execution that was so significant i…
The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain
history of crime; capital punishment; medical humanities
How to Hang in Chains
The criminal corpse undertook a journey from the scaffold to the gibbet. The gibbet was commonly located near the scene of crime and in a conspicuous location, usually within sight of a major road. Customary gibbet places existed in London and in some coastal locationGibbet placement/location , but usually the body was transported from the place of executionExecution to the place of hanging in chains. Sometimes, especially earlier in our period, …
Curious afterlives
Not only did the criminal corpse have actual medicinal and magical power for Europeans, it also had social and cultural meaning as an object, a curio or secular relic. This paper considers the appeal of notorious bodies. From books bound in the skin of a criminal, to preserved and exhibited heads, from fragments of the hangman's rope to the exhibition of the skeleton, the story of the afterlife of criminal bodies and the material culture most imm…
The Landscape of the Gibbet
From the Murder Act of 1752 until the Anatomy Act of 1832 it was forbidden to bury the bodies of executed murderers unless they had first been anatomised or 'hung in chains' (gibbeted). This paper considers some of the observations of the Wellcome-funded project 'Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse' as they relate to the practice of gibbeting. The nature of hanging in chains is briefly described before an extensive discussion of the crite…
The Technology of the Gibbet
The practice of "hanging in chains" or gibbeting had been part of the punitive repertoire of the English and Welsh judicial system for centuries before the 1751-52 Murder Act specified it as one of two mandatory post-mortem punishments for murderers. The practice was not abolished until 1834. This article considers the technical and design features of the gibbet cage, through an exhaustive survey and catalogue of their surviving remains. It notes…
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial
The archaeology of death and burial provides a privileged source of insight into the lives of people in the past. This kind of archaeological feature commonly includes the material remains of the dead, containing biological information of age, sex, pathologies, DNA profiles, and isotopic signals of diet and migration. The analysis of burials also provides archaeological information about how the dead were treated as part of the mortuary ritual, w…
Preserving the Body
"The archaeology of death and burial provides a privileged source of insight into the lives of people in the past. This kind of archaeological feature commonly includes the material remains of the dead, containing biological information of age, sex, pathologies, DNA profiles, and isotopic signals of diet and migration. The analysis of burials also provides archaeological information about how the dead were treated as part of the mortuary ritual, …
Can an archaeologist be a public intellectual
In the contributions that follow seven archaeologists, of different backgrounds and working in different ways and places, attempt to answer the question 'Can an archaeologist be a public intellectual?' This discussion follows a special forum, sponsored by this journal, held at the European Archaeologists' Association annual conference in Helsinki in 2012. The participants in that forum were Åsa Larsson, Layla Renshaw, Ghattas Sajey, Audrey Hornin…
Thinking Through the Body
The Archaeology of Emotion and Affect
The literature on the archaeology of emotion and affect is mostly quite recent and is not extensive. This review considers the main lines of approach taken so far and explores how different understandings of what constitutes an emotion underlie the work of archaeologists in this area. A distinction is made between past emotion as a subject of study and examination of the emotional subjectivity of the archaeologist as a method. The potential contr…
Pale reflections
Harris and Sørensen's paper is a welcome attempt to address the question of 'finding' and interpreting emotion in the deep past. Their contribution to this emerging area of debate is particularly valuable in that it treats upon a prehistoric context, and is thus unaided by the rich contextual information provided by historical sources; and it moves the debate away from the mortuary context towards other areas of lived experience - here the proces…
The Archaeology of Improvement in Britain, 1750–1850
In this innovative 2007 study, Sarah Tarlow shows how the archaeology of this period manifests a widespread and cross-cutting ethic of improvement. Theoretically informed and drawn from primary and secondary sources in a range of disciplines, the author considers agriculture and the rural environment, towns, and buildings such as working-class housing and institutions of reform. From bleach baths to window glass, rubbish pits to tea wares, the ma…
Forum
(2007). Forum: Making Trouble for Business Ethics. Public Archaeology: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 124-125
Forum
Representing Utopia
The Interpretive Potential of Utopian Settlements
Colonialism as material fact
(2005). Colonialism as material fact: Archaeology and colonialism cultural contact from 5000BC to the present By Chris Gosden. Public Archaeology: Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 283-285
Colonialism as material fact
Death and Commemoration
The study of graveyards and memorial monuments in Britain in the early modern and modern periods is underdeveloped. Despite the many (maybe thousands) of graveyard survey and recording projects that have been undertaken, wide-ranging historical research questions have barely begun to be addressed. This paper identifies a number of possible directions for academic research, clustering around the three areas of demographic, family and social struct…
Thinking Through the Body
List of Figures and Tables. List of Contributors. Introduction: Thinking Through the Body Y. Hamilakis, et al. Part 1: Bodies, Selves and Individuals. Introduction S. Tarlow. 1. Archaeology's humanism and the materiality of the body J. Thomas. 2. Body Parts: personhood and materiality in the earlier Manx neolithic C. Fowler. 3. Moralities of dress and the dress of the dead in early medieval Europe J. Bazelmans. 4. The aesthetic corpse in nineteen…
Emotion in Archaeology
Despite the establishment of significant traditions of emotion research in many disciplines, there has been little discussion of the state and potential of the archaeological study of emotion. This paper aims to review archaeological approaches to emotion-to assess the significance of existing studies and outline the potential for the incorporation of emotion into archaeological research. It argues that the study of emotion in the past is both ne…
The Archaeology of Emotion and Affect
The literature on the archaeology of emotion and affect is mostly quite recent and is not extensive. This review considers the main lines of approach taken so far and explores how different understandings of what constitutes an emotion underlie the work of archaeologists in this area. A distinction is made between past emotion as a subject of study and examination of the emotional subjectivity of the archaeologist as a method. The potential contr…
Landscapes of memory
During the 1820s, 1830s and 1840s, garden cemeteries were founded in most cities in Britain. Their characteristic appearance owes much to a British tradition of naturalistic landscape design but has particular resonances in the context of death and mourning in the nineteenth century. This article considers some of the factors that have been significant in the development of the British landscape cemetery, including public health, class relationsh…
An Archaeology of Remembering
Archaeological approaches to death and commemoration which privilege the negotiation of power relationships can underestimate the importance of personal and emotional responses to bereavement and mortality. Remembrance of the dead of the First World War is often understood in terms of the promotion of nationalist ideologies, but emotional factors such as grief and shock were also involved in the shaping of commemorative responses. In this article…
Familiar Past
Decoding ethics
Professional associations of archaeologists and anthropologists have produced numerous codes of ethics in recent years. Their compilation is motivated as much by the desire to promote standardized professional practice as a wish to enshrine correct ethical responses. The precise wording of these is often minutely scrutinized (although not minutely enough, I argue), but their overall purpose, status or value is rarely considered. This paper consid…
Excavating Utopia
Ethical entanglements
The ethical treatment of human remains after excavation is a core debate in archaeology. This project explores the treatment of human remains in some European museums with an aim to support open discussion of complex ethical issues among research and heritage professionals involved in the care of human remains
Can an archaeologist be a public intellectual
In the contributions that follow seven archaeologists, of different backgrounds and working in different ways and places, attempt to answer the question 'Can an archaeologist be a public intellectual?' This discussion follows a special forum, sponsored by this journal, held at the European Archaeologists' Association annual conference in Helsinki in 2012. The participants in that forum were Åsa Larsson, Layla Renshaw, Ghattas Sajey, Audrey Hornin…
Death and Commemoration
The study of graveyards and memorial monuments in Britain in the early modern and modern periods is underdeveloped. Despite the many (maybe thousands) of graveyard survey and recording projects that have been undertaken, wide-ranging historical research questions have barely begun to be addressed. This paper identifies a number of possible directions for academic research, clustering around the three areas of demographic, family and social struct…
The Names of the Dead
One of the foundational principles of modern medical ethics is the maintenance of anonymity in the case of researching human material and in disseminating that research. This principle safeguards the privacy of living human subjects, and minimizes the prejudicial effect that personal knowledge might have on the researcher. Does this principle transfer to human material in museum contexts, especially when human remains are on public display? Many …
Preserving the Body
"The archaeology of death and burial provides a privileged source of insight into the lives of people in the past. This kind of archaeological feature commonly includes the material remains of the dead, containing biological information of age, sex, pathologies, DNA profiles, and isotopic signals of diet and migration. The analysis of burials also provides archaeological information about how the dead were treated as part of the mortuary ritual, …
The Interpretive Potential of Utopian Settlements
Representing Utopia
Capitalism and critique
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An Archaeology of Remembering
Archaeological approaches to death and commemoration which privilege the negotiation of power relationships can underestimate the importance of personal and emotional responses to bereavement and mortality. Remembrance of the dead of the First World War is often understood in terms of the promotion of nationalist ideologies, but emotional factors such as grief and shock were also involved in the shaping of commemorative responses. In this article…
Capitalism and critique
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Landscapes of memory
During the 1820s, 1830s and 1840s, garden cemeteries were founded in most cities in Britain. Their characteristic appearance owes much to a British tradition of naturalistic landscape design but has particular resonances in the context of death and mourning in the nineteenth century. This article considers some of the factors that have been significant in the development of the British landscape cemetery, including public health, class relationsh…
Emotion in Archaeology
Despite the establishment of significant traditions of emotion research in many disciplines, there has been little discussion of the state and potential of the archaeological study of emotion. This paper aims to review archaeological approaches to emotion-to assess the significance of existing studies and outline the potential for the incorporation of emotion into archaeological research. It argues that the study of emotion in the past is both ne…
Decoding ethics
Professional associations of archaeologists and anthropologists have produced numerous codes of ethics in recent years. Their compilation is motivated as much by the desire to promote standardized professional practice as a wish to enshrine correct ethical responses. The precise wording of these is often minutely scrutinized (although not minutely enough, I argue), but their overall purpose, status or value is rarely considered. This paper consid…
Excavating Utopia
Jonathan Finch. Church monuments in Norfolk before 1850
Jonathan Finch. Church monuments in Norfolk before 1850: an archaeology of commemoration (British Archaeological Reports British series 317). viii+278 pages, 49 figures, 16 tables, 71 plates, 49 figures, 16 tables, 71 plates. 2000. Oxford: Archaeopress; 1-84171-209-4 paperback £40. - Volume 76 Issue 292
Familiar Past
Colonialism as material fact
(2005). Colonialism as material fact: Archaeology and colonialism cultural contact from 5000BC to the present By Chris Gosden. Public Archaeology: Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 283-285
Colonialism as material fact
Death and Commemoration
The study of graveyards and memorial monuments in Britain in the early modern and modern periods is underdeveloped. Despite the many (maybe thousands) of graveyard survey and recording projects that have been undertaken, wide-ranging historical research questions have barely begun to be addressed. This paper identifies a number of possible directions for academic research, clustering around the three areas of demographic, family and social struct…
Representing Utopia
The Interpretive Potential of Utopian Settlements
The Archaeology of Improvement in Britain, 1750–1850
In this innovative 2007 study, Sarah Tarlow shows how the archaeology of this period manifests a widespread and cross-cutting ethic of improvement. Theoretically informed and drawn from primary and secondary sources in a range of disciplines, the author considers agriculture and the rural environment, towns, and buildings such as working-class housing and institutions of reform. From bleach baths to window glass, rubbish pits to tea wares, the ma…
Forum
(2007). Forum: Making Trouble for Business Ethics. Public Archaeology: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 124-125
Forum
Pale reflections
Harris and Sørensen's paper is a welcome attempt to address the question of 'finding' and interpreting emotion in the deep past. Their contribution to this emerging area of debate is particularly valuable in that it treats upon a prehistoric context, and is thus unaided by the rich contextual information provided by historical sources; and it moves the debate away from the mortuary context towards other areas of lived experience - here the proces…
Thinking Through the Body
The Archaeology of Emotion and Affect
The literature on the archaeology of emotion and affect is mostly quite recent and is not extensive. This review considers the main lines of approach taken so far and explores how different understandings of what constitutes an emotion underlie the work of archaeologists in this area. A distinction is made between past emotion as a subject of study and examination of the emotional subjectivity of the archaeologist as a method. The potential contr…
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial
The archaeology of death and burial provides a privileged source of insight into the lives of people in the past. This kind of archaeological feature commonly includes the material remains of the dead, containing biological information of age, sex, pathologies, DNA profiles, and isotopic signals of diet and migration. The analysis of burials also provides archaeological information about how the dead were treated as part of the mortuary ritual, w…
Preserving the Body
"The archaeology of death and burial provides a privileged source of insight into the lives of people in the past. This kind of archaeological feature commonly includes the material remains of the dead, containing biological information of age, sex, pathologies, DNA profiles, and isotopic signals of diet and migration. The analysis of burials also provides archaeological information about how the dead were treated as part of the mortuary ritual, …
Can an archaeologist be a public intellectual
In the contributions that follow seven archaeologists, of different backgrounds and working in different ways and places, attempt to answer the question 'Can an archaeologist be a public intellectual?' This discussion follows a special forum, sponsored by this journal, held at the European Archaeologists' Association annual conference in Helsinki in 2012. The participants in that forum were Åsa Larsson, Layla Renshaw, Ghattas Sajey, Audrey Hornin…
The Technology of the Gibbet
The practice of "hanging in chains" or gibbeting had been part of the punitive repertoire of the English and Welsh judicial system for centuries before the 1751-52 Murder Act specified it as one of two mandatory post-mortem punishments for murderers. The practice was not abolished until 1834. This article considers the technical and design features of the gibbet cage, through an exhaustive survey and catalogue of their surviving remains. It notes…
The Landscape of the Gibbet
From the Murder Act of 1752 until the Anatomy Act of 1832 it was forbidden to bury the bodies of executed murderers unless they had first been anatomised or 'hung in chains' (gibbeted). This paper considers some of the observations of the Wellcome-funded project 'Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse' as they relate to the practice of gibbeting. The nature of hanging in chains is briefly described before an extensive discussion of the crite…
Curious afterlives
Not only did the criminal corpse have actual medicinal and magical power for Europeans, it also had social and cultural meaning as an object, a curio or secular relic. This paper considers the appeal of notorious bodies. From books bound in the skin of a criminal, to preserved and exhibited heads, from fragments of the hangman's rope to the exhibition of the skeleton, the story of the afterlife of criminal bodies and the material culture most imm…
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