Introduction : processing and poetics, examining the model / Anna J. Osterholtz -- Power, mediation, and transformation : dismembered heads from Uraca (Majes Valley, Peru) and the Andean feline-hunter myth / Beth Koontz Scaffidi -- The politics and poetics of performance violence at Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico / Kyle D. Waller and Adrianne M. Offenbecker -- Ritual modification of human remains in the context of social turmoil among Ancestral Pueblo peoples of the northern San Juan / Kristin A. Kuckelman -- The poetics of corpse fragmentation and processing in the Ancient Southwest / Debra Martin and Anna J. Osterholtz -- Poetics of the house : changing realities of body and person in Aksumite mortuary practices / Dilpreet Singh Basanti -- Smiting pharaohs : violence and power in ancient Egypt / Roselyn A. Campbell -- Social memory and mortuary practices in Neolithic Anatolia / Marin A. Pilloud, Scott D. Haddow, Christopher J. Knüsel, and Clark Spencer Larsen -- Mingled bones, mingled bodies : diversity in the poetics of death at Nabataean Petra, Jordan / Megan Perry and Anna J. Osterholtz -- Dissection as social process : anatomical settings in the nineteenth-century United States / Christina J. Hodge and Kenneth C. Nystrom -- Processing the destitute and deviant dead : inequality, dissection, politics, and the structurally violent legalization of social marginalization in American anatomical collection / Carlina de la Cova -- Conclusion : poetic amplifications and extensions, how to process the dead / Eric J. Haanstad
Summary:
"Examines complex cultural meanings of manipulation of remains after death and combines social theory and bioarchaeology to examine how the living manipulate the bodies of the dead for social purposes. From prehistoric to modern and old world to the new, humans have a relationship with the dead that doesn't cease with physical death"-- Provided by publisher
