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Mortuary Monuments and Burial Grounds of the Historic Period
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1. Introduction.- 1. A Brief History Historical Mortuary Archaeology.- 2. THeoretical Approaches.- 3. Summary.- 2. Folk Traditions And High Culture: Funerary And Commemorative Practice To The Early 18Th Century.- 1. Death.- 2. The Funeral.- 3. Burial Grounds.- 4. Internal Memorials.- 5. External Memorials.- 6. Conclusions.- 3. A Maturing Industry: The Mid-18Th Century To Early 20Th Century.- 1. The Funeral.- 2. Mourning.- 3. Commemoration.- 4. Burial Grounds And Cemeteries.- 5. INTERNAL MEMORIALS.- 6. External Memorials.- 7. Decoration And Symbols.- 8. Text.- 9. Conclusions.- 4. A Marginalized Activity: From After World War I.- 1. The Funeral.- 2. Mourning.- 3. Commemoration.- 4. Burial Grounds And Cemeteries.- 5. Internal Memorials.- 6. External Memorials.- 7. Conclusions.- 5. Production And Consumption.- 1. Funerary And Mourning Paraphernalia.- 2. Commemoration.- 3. Temporal Change.- 4. Spatial Change.- 5. Conclusions.- 6. Social Structures.- 1. The Relationship Between Living Communities And Burial Ground Populations.- 2. Status.- 3. Family Structures.- 4. Institutional Structures.- 5. Patterns Of Dependency.- 6. Social Hierarchies.- 7. Necrogeography.- 8. Emulation.- 9. Conclusions.- 7. Identities.- 1. Religious Affiliation.- 2. Ethnicity.- 3. Linguistic Group.- 4. Vocational Identity.- 5. Conclusions.- 8. Attitudes Toward Death, The Body And Remembrance.- 1. The Manner Of Death.- 2. Attitudes Toward The Body.- 3. Grave Refurbishment.- 4. Conclusions.- 9. Carrying Out A Study.- 1. Methodological Issues.- 2. Project Fieldwork Planning.- 3. Sampling.- 4. Survey.- 5. Researching Memorials.- 6. Analysis.- 7. Excavation.- 8. Conclusions.- 10. Conservation, Education, And Display.- 1. Ethics And Methods Of Conservation.- 2. Historic Burial Grounds In Education.- 3. PublicInterpretation And Display.- 4. Conclusions.- Appendix 1. Examples Of Recording Systems.- Appendix 2. Useful Addresses.

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