Who's afraid of the dead? Archaeology, modernity and the death taboo
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 3918740 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Duncan Sayer (0000-0002-2769-1281, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2010 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Fascículo | 3 |
| Páginas | 481-491 |
| Data de publicação | 2010-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | World Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375 |
| Editora | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00438243.2010.498665 |
| OpenAlex | W2017994166 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 24 |
| Referências citadas | 21 |
Archaeologists have often taken it for granted that death is a taboo topic in modern society. However, the fear of death hypothesis is contested within the social sciences, so does it still follow that the display of the ancient dead is in some way shameful or unacceptable? In this paper it is argued that death is not taboo and that modern death scholars use archaeological source material as a way to understand the subtlety of the human experience. Funerary archaeology is not a dangerous topic; rather it makes a very real and valuable contribution to modern society, providing one of the few ways that people can experience a corpse and so explore their own mortality and with it their place within the larger human story
Archaeology · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Modernity · Sociology · Taboo · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · History · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy
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The Curation and Display of Lindow Man
Good grief
Virtually Dead
Deaths Matter
Tonics, Bitters, and Other Curatives
Exposure
Taboo and the different death? Perceptions of those bereaved by suicide or other traumatic death
Hard roads to travel
Children Under the Floor
Letting skeletons out of the closet
Let the dead speak! Mobility, visibility and (in)security in Qatar
The place of human remains in the frame of cultural heritage
The Island of Blood
"Tapuand the invention of the "death taboo
Noli me tangere
The Revival of Death
A Social History of Dying
The ethics of displaying human remains from British archaeological sites
Ethics and burial archaeology
Three ways to arrange a funeral
Death, society and archaeology
Are we a ‘death-denying’ society? A sociological review
Public Dying
The ethics of displaying human remains from British archaeological sites
Fear of Death
The Powerful Dead
Silence and truth in death and dying
Is there a crisis facing British burial archaeology
Modern Death
Modernity, Mortality and Re-Enchantment
Body Worlds
| Obras citantes distintas | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citações por ano | 1,6 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Velocidade de citação | recent |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 23 |