Bones, people and communities
Tensions between individual and corporate identities in secondary burial ritual
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21098136 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ani Chénier (McMaster University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2009-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | NEXUS The Canadian Student Journal of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0707-3771 • E-ISSN: 0707-3771 |
| Publisher | McMaster University Library (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.15173/nexus.v21i1.214 |
| OpenAlex | W259844608 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 32 |
This review of archaeological and ethnographic literature on secondary burial practices explores how different theoretical understandings of the body inform interpretations of mortuary practice as a forum for negotiations of identity and community among the living. Tension between various scales of identity – personal and corporate – assumed by the deceased are shown to be key elements in many of these negotiations. The materiality of the body can allow participants to explore these tensions through physical manipulations that are part of ritual practice. However, ethnographic examples suggest that multiple interpretations can exist for similar practices, and that secondary burial practices are often mutable and fluid in meaning. While historically contingent, variations in practice can become a means of group identification or differentiation
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Ethnography · Identity negotiation · Negotiation · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Gender Studies · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Ecology
Procesos De Formación Y Efectos Tafonómicos en Entierros Humanos
Protohistoric graveyards of the Swat Valley, Pakistan
Patrones de distribución espacial en las necrópolis megalíticas de Majadillas y Hoyas del Conquín (Granada, España). Resultados preliminares
Human corpse manipulation and the body as symbol
Secondary burial cemeteries, visibility and land tenure
From Inalienable Possessions to Magic
Fragments of death. A taphonomic study of human remains from Neolithic Orkney
Approach to the visual landscape of the Gor river megalithic necropolises (Granada, Spain)
Huellas de aserrado perimetral sobre restos óseos humanos. El caso del sitio Cerro Lutz, provincia de Entre Ríos
Iberomaurusian funerary customs
Was There a Process of Regionalization in Northeastern Patagonia During the Late Holocene
The Unity of Community in Cemetery
Early Neolithic burials of Starćevo culture at Galovo, Slavonski Brod (Northern Croatia)
Cuatro enterramientos calcolíticos en hoyo del Cerro de la Cabeza (Ávila)
Adding to the Complexity of Documented Burial Customs in the Ghassulian Chalcolithic Cemetery at Palmaḥim (north), Southern Levant
Revisiting the Dead
From corpse to bones
Interpreting a ritual funerary area at the Early Neolithic site of Tell Qarassa North (South Syria, late 9th millennium BC)
Introduction
The political lives of dead bodies
Death, women and power
Of flesh and bones
Archaeology’s Humanism and the Materiality of the Body
L'homme devant la mort
Prey into Hunter
Returning to Oleni' ostrov
Death, Mortuary Ritual, and Natufian Social Structure
The Dynamics of Death
Chapter 2. Collective Burials and Community Memories
Damasus and the Invention of Early Christian Rome
Mortuary Behavior and Early Holocene Land Use in the North American Midcontinent
Ancestor Masks and Aristocratic Power in Roman Culture
The Archaeology of Ancestors
Burying the Dead at Tlatilco
Mortuary Monuments and Social Change among the Ngaju
Place, Death, and the Transmission of Social Memory in Early Agricultural Communities of the Near Eastern Pre-Pottery Neolithic
Embodied Memories of Place and People
Social Memory, Identity, and Death
Herodotus and the cannibals
Restless corpses
Stonehenge for the ancestors
The Social Significance of Cotswold-Severn Burial Practices
Devouring the Mother
Mourning becomes eclectic
Thus Are Our Bodies, Thus Was Our Custom
The 19th-century Tlingit potlatch
Disposal of the Dead
Flowers and Bones
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,13 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2025 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |