Material things are not just passive recipients of human categories, meanings and values,
nor mere subjects of human agency. Their particular characteristics and behaviours are …

The materiality of death The Materiality of Death Bodies, burials, beliefs Edited by Fredrik
Fahlander Terje Oestigaard BAR International Series 1768 2008 Page 2 This title published by …

Holy water has a central role in shaping the understanding and beliefs of holiness in
general, but how does holy water work, and what defines holy water? By analyzing holy …

Apart from eschatological aspects, death is more important for the living than the dead. It is
argued that funerals are one of the most important settings for recreating society through the …

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme
and is available on www. bloomsburycollections. com. Despite the central importance that …

The main themes of the thesis are burial customs and social identities, and how medieval
and post-Reformation graves can provide information on such as age structures, phases in …

Abstract Cremation and Cosmology–A Comparative Archaeological Introduction aims to
synthesise in an easily accessible style the current state of cremation research and some of …

Cremation as a funeral practice opens up a huge variety of uses of the dead body by
descendants for different purposes in culture and cosmology. By cremating the dead at …

The Christian religion is deeply imbued with the imagery of water, and water plays a central
role in its religious practices, not least in baptism. Yet the wider role of water in Christianity …

The Nile is arguably the most famous river in the world. For millennia, the search for its
source defeated emperors and explorers. Yet the search for its source also contained a …