Life After Life
Bioarchaeology and Post-mortem Agency
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5774342 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Arnold (0000-0003-3359-8152, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 523-529 |
| Publication date | 2014-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cambridge Archaeological Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0959-7743 • E-ISSN: 1474-0540 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0959774314000572 |
| OpenAlex | W2089430265 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 4 |
In the alternative fairy tale The Princess Bride, as William Goldman's character Miracle Max reanimates the apparent corpse of the hero Westley, he tells the anxious group observing the procedure: 'There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive' (Goldman 2007, 313). Only a select group of the dead can be characterized as being 'slightly alive', in the post-mortem agency sense, however, and the case studies presented here explore the many ways in which this subcategory of mostly dead individuals have engaged with and continue to impact the living in the past as well as today. Several themes emerge as especially salient: the iteration in the death-scape of the dynamic tension between the individual and the social group, which can result in transgression as well as conformity in the disposition of the body and its effects on the living; the symbolic capital represented by some dead bodies and the ways in which their potency may be affected by various forms of contextual association; and the ways in which the manipulation of the dead for political purposes is subject to constraints specific to the cultural contexts in which these interactions take place
Agency (philosophy · Dead body · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law
Marginalization in Life and Death
A histological approach to mortuary variability in Early Bronze Age Transylvania
Interdisciplinary Explorations of Postmortem Interaction
Retracted Article
The long life of pithos burials during the Proto- and Neo-palatial period in Crete
Introduction
Archaeologically derived human remains in England
Making kinship with human remains
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,89 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |