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J Material Culture 9 (3)
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Title:
J Material Culture 9 (3)
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Series:
Journal of Material Culture
Volume
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Volume:
9 (3)
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Publication Type:
Journal
Editor
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Editor:
Daniel Miller
Christopher Tilley
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Publisher:
Sage Publications
Year of Publication
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Year of Publication:
2004
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BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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Created Date:
06 Dec 2004
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Sacred sites, contested rites/rights: contemporary pagan engagements with the past
Jenny Blain
Robert J Wallis
237 - 261
The authors aim to examine physical, spiritual and interpretative engagements of present-day pagans with sacred sites, to theorize `sacredness', and to explore the implications of pagan engagements with sites for heritage management and archaeology more generally, in terms of `preservation ethic' vis-à -vis active engagement. The article explores ways in which `sacred sites' -- both the term and the sites -- are negotiated by different interest groups, foregrounding their location both as academics and as active pagan engagers with sites. Examples of pagan actions at such sites, including at Avebury and Stonehenge, demonstrate not only that engagements with sacred sites are diverse and that identities arising therefrom are complex, but also that heritage management has not entirely neglected the issues. In addition to managed open access solstice celebrations at Stonehenge, a climate of inclusivity and multivocality has resulted in fruitful negotiations at the Rollright Stones.
Death warmed up: the agency of bodies and bones in early Anglo-Saxo...
Howard Williams
263 - 291
The author argues that recent archaeological theories of death and burial have tended to overlook the social and mnemonic agency of the dead body. Drawing upon anthropological, ethnographic and forensic analogies for the effects of fire on the human body, together with Alfred Gell's theory of the agency of inanimate objects, the article explores the cremation rites of early Anglo-Saxon England. As a case study in the archaeological study of the mnemonic agency of bodies and bones it is suggested that cremation and post-cremation rites in the fifth and sixth centuries AD in eastern England operated as technologies of remembrance. Cremation encouraged distinctive forms of engagement with the physicality and materiality of the dead. It is argued that cremated bodies and ashes need to be theorized as more than osteological data, artefacts or symbolic resources, but as holding material agency influencing the selective remembering and forgetting of the deceased's personhood.