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Author Perego, Elisa

Title Burial and Social Change in First Millennium BC Italy : Approaching Social Agents
Published Havertown : Oxbow Books, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (377 pages)
Contents Table of contents; Preface and acknowledgements; List of contributors; Introduction: burial and social change in first-millennium BC Italy: an agent-focused approach; Section 1: Funerary symbolism and ritual practice: from élite identities to gender, age, personhood and connectivity; 1. Theoretical issues in the interpretation of cemeteries and case studies from Etruria to Campania; 2. Styles of drinking and the burial rites of Early Iron Age Middle-Tyrrhenian Italy; 3. Potting personhood: biconical urns and the development of individual funerary identity
4. Somebody to love: gender and social identity in seventh and sixth-century BC Chiusi5. Women in a warriors' society; 6. Verucchio. The social status of children: a methodological question concerning funerary symbolism and the use of space within graves; 7. Quid in nomine est? What's in a name: re-contextualizing the princely tombs and social change in ancient Campania; 8. Nested identities and mental distances: Archaic burials in Latium Vetus; Section 2: Identities on the fringe; 9. Frontiers of the plain. Funerary practice and multiculturalism in sixth-century BC western Emilia
10. Falling behind: access to formal burial and faltering élites in Samnium (central Italy)11. Youth on fire? The role of sub-adults and young adults in pre-Roman Italian Brandopferplätze; 12. Inequality, abuse and increased socio-political complexity in Iron Age Veneto, c. 800-500 BC; Finale; 13. Shifting perspectives: new agendas for the study of power, social change and the person in late prehistoric and proto-historic Italy; Index
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Subject Burial -- Italy -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient -- Italy -- History -- Congresses
Tombs -- Italy -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient -- Italy -- Congresses
Antiquities
Burial
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient
Tombs
SUBJECT Italy -- History -- To 476 -- Congresses
Italy -- Antiquities -- Congresses
Subject Italy
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
Author Scopacasa, Rafael
ISBN 9781785701856
1785701851