Unusual death and memorialization burial, space, and memory in the post-Medieval North
Introduction. In search of unusual in early modern and modern burial traditions / Titta Kallio-Seppä, Sanna Lipkin, Annemari Tranberg, Tiina Väre, and Ulla Moilanen -- Forgotten and remembered : unusual memorial practices at Buffalo's old cemeteries / Sanna Lipkin -- Reactions to tragedy : fami...
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2022
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction. In search of unusual in early modern and modern burial traditions / Titta Kallio-Seppä, Sanna Lipkin, Annemari Tranberg, Tiina Väre, and Ulla Moilanen -- Forgotten and remembered : unusual memorial practices at Buffalo's old cemeteries / Sanna Lipkin -- Reactions to tragedy : familial and community memorials to sudden occupational deaths in Britain and Ireland / Harold Mytum -- Memory of epidemic diseases in Finland : old disease cemeteries and modern urban planning / Titta Kallio-Seppä and Tiina Väre -- Freethinkers' cemeteries and local secular burial culture in Finland / Ilona Pajari -- Death during retreat : the burials of Carolean soldiers in Jämtland and Trøndelag (Sweden and Norway) / Kristina Jonsson -- Taken to the island : temporary burials in early and late modern periods in Finnish periphery / Tiina Väre and Juha Ruohonen -- "On the apparitions of drowned men" : folklore and the memory of unnatural death at Haffjarðarey, Western Iceland / Sarah Hoffman -- Death lives with us : witchcraft on the east coast of Bothnian Bay during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Annemari Tranberg -- The cause of death-arsenic or mercury? Investigation of human remains from entombments in the Moscow Kremlin (sixteenth-early seventeenth century) / Tatiana Dmitrievna Panova, Andrey Yurievich Dmitriev, Sergey Borisovich Borzakov, and Constantin Hramco -- Sawed skulls : archaeological evidence of medico-legal autopsies in Finland / Ulla Moilanen, Anne-Mari Liira, Heli Lehto, Kati Salo, Maija Helamaa, and Kari Uotila "Most cultures and societies have their own customs and traditions of treating their dead. In the past, some deceased received a burial that deviated from tradition. The reasons for unusual burial could result from reasons such as outbreaks of epidemics or wars, or from premature births, distinctive social status, or disability. Authors present a selection of cases addressing the issue of unusual deaths, burials, or ways to remember the deceased. Chapters explore theoretical views related to social memory of death and memorializing the deceased and their resting places during modern period. The case studies introduce varied views on 'otherness' that are visible in burial customs and memorialization"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | xi, 276 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781800736023 978-1-80073-602-3 |