{"product_id":"early-anglo-saxon-cemeteries-kinship-community-and-identity-hardcover","title":"Early Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries: Kinship, Community and Identity - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDuncan Sayer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book moves beyond the examination of grave goods to place community at the forefront of cemetery studies. It reveals that early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries were pluralistic, multi-generational places where the physical communication of digging a grave was used to construct family and community stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEarly Anglo-Saxon cemeteries are well-known for their rich grave goods, but this wealth can obscure their importance as a local phenomenon and the product of pluralistic, multi-generational communities. This book explores over one hundred early Anglo-Saxon and Merovingian cemeteries, seeking to understand them using a multi-dimensional methodology. The performance of mortuary drama was a physical communication, which means it required syntax and semantics. This local knowledge was used to negotiate the arrangement of cemetery spaces and to construct the stories that were told within them. For some families the emphasis of a mortuary ritual was on reinforcing and reproducing family narratives, but this was only one technique used to arrange cemetery space. The book offers an alternative way to explore the horizontal organisation of cemeteries from a holistic perspective. Each chapter builds on the last, using a variety of criteria - including visual aesthetics, spatial statistics, grave orientation, mortuary ritual, grave goods, skeletal trauma, stature, gender and age -- to build a detailed picture of complex mortuary spaces. This approach places community at the forefront of interpretation, since people used and reused cemetery spaces, emphasising different characteristics of the deceased because of their own attitudes, lifeways and live experiences. Proposing a way to move beyond grave goods in the discussion of complex social identities, this book will appeal to scholars of Anglo-Saxon studies and to archaeologists interested in mortuary spaces, communities and social differentiation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEarly Anglo-Saxon cemeteries are well-known for their rich grave goods, but this wealth can obscure their importance as a local phenomenon and the product of pluralistic, multi-generational communities. This book explores over one hundred early Anglo-Saxon and Merovingian cemeteries, seeking to understand them using a multi-dimensional methodology. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe performance of mortuary drama was a physical communication, which means it required syntax and semantics. This local knowledge was used to negotiate the arrangement of cemetery spaces and to construct the stories that were told within them. For some families the emphasis of a mortuary ritual was on reinforcing and reproducing family narratives, but this was only one technique used to arrange cemetery space. The book offers an alternative way to explore the horizontal organisation of cemeteries from a holistic perspective. Each chapter builds on the last, using a variety of criteria - including visual aesthetics, spatial statistics, grave orientation, mortuary ritual, grave goods, skeletal trauma, stature, gender and age -- to build a detailed picture of complex mortuary spaces. This approach places community at the forefront of interpretation, since people used and reused cemetery spaces, emphasising different characteristics of the deceased because of their own attitudes, lifeways and live experiences. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eProposing a way to move beyond grave goods in the discussion of complex social identities, this book will appeal to scholars of Anglo-Saxon studies and to archaeologists interested in mortuary spaces, communities and social differentiation.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuncan Sayer is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Central Lancashire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 24, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51792000254240,"sku":"9781526135568","price":78.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/59e20dc9bf0be826520c8245db92a973.webp?v=1780692716","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/early-anglo-saxon-cemeteries-kinship-community-and-identity-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}