Staging Death : Funerary Performance, Architecture and Landscape in the Aegean.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Staging Death: an Introduction -- Getting to Funerary Place in a Fairly Short Stretch of Time: Death and Performance in the Prehistoric Aegean -- Performative Places: Movement and Theatricality -- Funerary Ritual-Architectural Events in the Temple Tomb and the Royal Tomb at Knossos -- Fields of Action in Mycenaean Funerary Practices -- Politics of Death at Mitrou: Two Prepalatial Elite Tombs in a Landscape of Power -- Familial Places: Deathscapes and Townscapes -- Intra, Extra, Inferus and Supra Mural Burials of the Middle Helladic Period: Spatial Diversity in Practice -- The Practice of Funerary Destruction in the Southwest Peloponnese -- A Roof for the Dead: Tomb Design and the 'Domestication of Death' in Mycenaean Funerary Architecture -- Placing Bodies, Embodying Places -- Revisiting the Tomb: Mortuary Practices in Habitation Areas in the Transition to the Late Bronze Age at Kirrha, Phocis -- Mortuary Practices in the Middle Bronze Age at Kouphovouno: Vernacular Dimensions of the Mortuary Ritual -- ' Death Is Not the End': Tracing the Manipulation of Bodies and Other Materials in the Early and Middle Minoan Cemetery at Sissi -- Biographies and Memories of Place -- A Posthumanocentric Approach to Funerary Ritual and its Sociohistorical. Significance: the Early and Middle Bronze Age Tholos Tombs at Apesokari, Crete -- From Performing Death to Venerating the Ancestors at Lebena Yerokambos, Crete -- Aegean Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Burials in the Ruins of Rulers' Dwellings: a Legitimisation of Power? -- From Deathscapes to Beliefscapes -- Continuities and Discontinuities in Helladic Burial Customs During the Bronze Age -- Structuring Space, Performing Rituals, Creating Memories: Towards a Cognitive Map of Early Mycenaean Funerary Behaviour.

Pollution and Purity in the Argolid and Corinthia During the Early Iron Age: the Burials -- BIOS -- Index.

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