Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World 'Death Shall Have No Dominion'
Book contents
- Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World
- Frontispiece
- Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1 ‘The Unanswered Question’: Investigating Early Conceptualisations of Death
- Part I Intimations of Mortality
- Part II Mortality and the Foundations of Human Society: Sedentism and the Collective
- Part III Constructing the Ancestors
- Part IV Death, Hierarchy, and the Social Order
- Chapter 14 Life and Death in Late Prehistoric to Early Historic Mesopotamia
- Chapter 15 The Big Sleep: Early Maya Mortuary Practice
- Chapter 16 De-Paradoxisation of Paradoxes by Referring to Death as an Ultimate Paradox: The Case of the State-Formation Phase of Japan
- Chapter 17 Death and Mortuary Rituals in Mainland Southeast Asia: From Hunter-Gatherers to the God Kings of Angkor
- Part V Materiality and Memory
- Part VI Intimations of Immortality: Glimpsing Other Worlds
- Part VII Responses and Reactions: Concluding Thoughts
- Index
- References
Chapter 17 - Death and Mortuary Rituals in Mainland Southeast Asia: From Hunter-Gatherers to the God Kings of Angkor
from Part IV - Death, Hierarchy, and the Social Order
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2015
Book contents
- Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World
- Frontispiece
- Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1 ‘The Unanswered Question’: Investigating Early Conceptualisations of Death
- Part I Intimations of Mortality
- Part II Mortality and the Foundations of Human Society: Sedentism and the Collective
- Part III Constructing the Ancestors
- Part IV Death, Hierarchy, and the Social Order
- Chapter 14 Life and Death in Late Prehistoric to Early Historic Mesopotamia
- Chapter 15 The Big Sleep: Early Maya Mortuary Practice
- Chapter 16 De-Paradoxisation of Paradoxes by Referring to Death as an Ultimate Paradox: The Case of the State-Formation Phase of Japan
- Chapter 17 Death and Mortuary Rituals in Mainland Southeast Asia: From Hunter-Gatherers to the God Kings of Angkor
- Part V Materiality and Memory
- Part VI Intimations of Immortality: Glimpsing Other Worlds
- Part VII Responses and Reactions: Concluding Thoughts
- Index
- References
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- Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World'Death Shall Have No Dominion', pp. 280 - 300Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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