Death and burial in Arabia and beyond : multidisciplinary perspectives

Author(s)

• Conference "Death, Burial and the Transition to the Afterlife in Arabia and Adjacent Regions
• Weeks, Lloyd R.

Bibliographic Information

Death and burial in Arabia and beyond : multidisciplinary perspectives

edited by Lloyd Weeks

（BAR international series, 2107）（Society for Arabian Studies monographs, no. 10）

Archaeopress, 2010

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

These papers, from a 2008 conference at the British Museum, explore cultural traditions related to death and burial across the Arabian Peninsula from prehistory to modern times. Major themes include: specific local and regional burial traditions of ancient Arabia and adjacent regions; implications of burial data for aspects of contemporaneous living societies; beliefs surrounding death and the transition to the afterlife; landscapes of death and burial; burial and pilgrimage; recent and contemporary ideas and practices relating to death and burial.

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Details

• NCID: BB04623979
• ISBN:
  • 9781407306483
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: x, 372 p.
• Size: 30 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : GT3274.5.A65
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Burial -- Arabian Peninsula -- History -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Excavations (Archaeology) -- Arabian Peninsula -- Congresses
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00388836
  • BA72084327