Body and Soul, Specimen and Commodity: meaning, interpretation and treatment of human remains and funerary objects<\/p>\n
Jane Hubert, Department of Psychiatry of Disability, St. George\u2019s Hospital Medical School, Cranmer Terrace, London SW17 ORE, UK. Tel: +44 181 725 5504, Fax: +44 171 383 2572, email: jhubert@sghms.ac.uk.
\nBen Rhodd, Box 846, Hill City, SD 57745, USA. Fax: +1 605 538 4315<\/p>\n
The aim of this symposium is to examine the different meanings and significance that have been attributed to human remains and funerary objects, now and in the past, by different cultures or groups, including indigenous people, archaeologists, museum curators and scientists. Topics of relevance to this symposium include:<\/p>\n
different beliefs, attitudes, treatment and uses of human remains and funerary objects
\nthe social, economic and political consequences of conflicting beliefs
\nhow and why beliefs change over time
\npeople as objects, objects as people
\nboundaries between life and death
\nthe compatibility or otherwise of scientific and non-scientific interests.
\nPast and present social perspectives on medical uses of the dead (dissection, organ donation, etc.)
\nThe body of the \u2018other\u2019 in the history of dissection
\nrights of the dead and claims on the body
\nownership of the dead<\/p>\n
papers:
\nAuthor 1 Author 2 Title
\nAko Ebot Definitions of Death
\nAko-Ebot On the dead and their possessions: variety and change in practice and belief
\nBondarev Attitude to human remains among the Kanuri: beliefs changing over time.
\nFortibui Cultural Importance of Reburial and Reclamation of Human Skeletal Remains in Some Ethnic Groups in the Western Grassfields
\nRollo-Koster Commemorating the Dead. A New Regard on the Late Middle Ages
\nSchanche Sami burials from prehistoric to Medieval times: Transformation of a religious cosmology?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Body and Soul, Specimen and Commodity: meaning, interpretation and treatment of human remains and funerary objects Jane Hubert, Department of Psychiatry of Disability, St. George\u2019s Hospital Medical School, Cranmer Terrace, London SW17 ORE, UK. Tel: +44 181 725 5504, Fax: +44 171 383 2572, email: jhubert@sghms.ac.uk. Ben Rhodd, Box 846, Hill City, SD 57745, USA. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldarchaeologicalcongress.com\/wac4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldarchaeologicalcongress.com\/wac4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldarchaeologicalcongress.com\/wac4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldarchaeologicalcongress.com\/wac4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldarchaeologicalcongress.com\/wac4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldarchaeologicalcongress.com\/wac4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/worldarchaeologicalcongress.com\/wac4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldarchaeologicalcongress.com\/wac4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldarchaeologicalcongress.com\/wac4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldarchaeologicalcongress.com\/wac4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}