- Title Information
- Title
- Mortuary Places, Rituals, and Memories: Anatolian Cemeteries in Context
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- DURGUN, PINAR
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- creator
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Personal
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- Van Dommelen, Peter
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- Advisor
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Personal
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- Cherry, John
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- Reader
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Personal
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- Hamilakis, Yannis
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Personal
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- Scherer, Andrew
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Personal
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- Baughan, Elizabeth
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- Reader
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Personal
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- Nilsson Stutz, Liv
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Corporate
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- Brown University. Department of Archaeology and the Ancient World
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- Origin Information
- Copyright Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- Extent
- 27, 399 p.
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- born digital
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thesis
- Thesis (Ph. D.)--Brown University, 2018
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- theses
- Abstract
- Extramural cemeteries are part of the visual, social, and symbolic landscapes of
settlements. They can transform according to the needs of changing social conditions,
but they also do not always reflect the circumstances of the living. This dissertation
examines the role of landscape, rituals, and memories in the formation of mortuary
traditions of Bronze Age Anatolia. The goal is to understand how social and ritual
change was expressed materially in cemeteries, and how these expressions continued
over time. This research analyzes mortuary evidence from western- and central-
Anatolian cemeteries and evaluates them in a social and ritual context. Through an
anthropological framework, I challenge the argument, widely-accepted in the study of
Bronze Age Anatolia, that burials were direct expressions of one’s wealth and identity.
Mortuary data from third- and second-millennium cemeteries show that mortuary
places, interactions with the dead, and burial objects were strongly influenced by social
memories, local choices, and ritual practices more than they were by individuals’
economic statuses. This research concludes that despite the local diversity in
settlements and in burial objects, mortuary practices show clear similarities in different
regions in western and central Anatolia. They continue —almost unchanged— for long
periods of time. The communal aspect of the mortuary rituals and the location of
cemeteries in the landscape play a central role in the continuity of cemeteries as
important social and symbolic places.
- Subject
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- Ancient Anatolia
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- Bronze age
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(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/00850521")
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- Cemeteries
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- Mortuary Archaeology
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- Death and Burial
- Subject (fast)
(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/00958424")
- Topic
- Hittites--Rites and ceremonies
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(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/00991791")
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- Landscape archaeology
- Subject (fast)
(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/00963482")
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- Human-animal relationships
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(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/01730109")
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- Human body--Symbolic aspects
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(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/01739814")
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- Collective memory
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- Mortuary rituals
- Language
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- English
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- RPB
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- 20180615
- Identifier:
DOI
- 10.26300/9cmm-jn59
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- dissertations