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Grave Goods : Objects and Death in Later Prehistoric Britain
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Cooper, Anwen

Britain is internationally renowned for the high quality and exquisite crafting of its later prehistoric grave goods (c. 4000 BC to AD 43). Many of prehistoric Britain's most impressive artefacts have come from graves. Interred with both inhumations and cremations, they provide some of the most durable and well-preserved insights into personal identity and the prehistoric life-course, yet they …

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978-1-78925-748-9
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363.7 COO g
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Governing the dead : Sovereignty and the politics of dead bodies
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Stepputat, Finn

This book looks at sovereignty as a particular form of power and politics. It shows that the fate of bodies in the transition from life to death can provide a key to understanding fundamental ways in which sovereignty is claimed and performed. The contributions analyse (post-)conflict as well as non-conflict contexts, which too often are studied in isolation from one another. Focusing on contem…

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978 07190 96082
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363.7 GOV
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The Golden and Ghoulish Age of the Gibbet in Britain
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Tarlow, Sarah

The book is based on research carried out as part of the research pro-gramme “Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse”, funded by the Wellcome Trust (grant WT095904AIA). I am very grateful to the Wellcome Trust for their support and assistance—financial and practical. I also thank the other participants in the programme: Elizabeth Hurren, Pet…

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978-1-137-60089-9
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363.75 TAR g
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Bodies Unburied : Subversive Corpses and the Authority of the Dead
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Martel, James R.

The human body is the locus of meaning, personhood, and our sense of the possibility of sanctity. The desecration of the human corpse is a matter of universal revulsion, taboo in virtually all human cultures. Not least for this reason, the unburied corpse quickly becomes a focal point of political salience, on the one hand seeming to express the contempt of state power toward the basic claims …

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978-1-943208-11-1
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363.75 MAR b