1. A Historical Archaeology of Death -- 2. Towards an Archaeology of Bereavement and Commemoration: Death, Emotion and Metaphor -- 3. Changing Commemorative Practices in Orkney -- 4. A Living Memory and a Corrupting Corpse -- 5. Remembering the Dead in the Nineteenth Century: A Love Story -- 6. War and Remembrance -- 7. Loved and Lost
Summary
In this book, Sarah Tarlow provides an innovative archaeology of bereavement, mortality and memory in the early modern and modern period. She draws on literary and historical sources as well as on material evidence to examine the evolution of attitudes towards death and commemoration over four centuries
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-203) and index