scholarly journals Burial Practices Expose Identity Formation: Muerte y figura hasta la sepultura

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 80
Author(s):  
Tess Pantoja Perez ◽  
Josie Méndez-Negrete
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
South Texas ◽  
Language Practices ◽  
Funerary Practices ◽  
Rural South ◽  
Burial Practices ◽  
Primary Author ◽  
Historical Origins ◽  
Culture And Language

 An examination of identity formation and its performative qualities or ways in which one enacts identity emerged as a result of a study of racially segregated cemeteries in a rural South Texas town, a practice that continues to dictate how burials are carried out, according to race. Fieldwork, archives, and pláticas, made visible the historical origins of funerary practices for the primary author—whose family lives in Nixon, Texas. Along with documenting funerary practices, this study explores the ways in which Pantoja Perez’s ancestors creatively camouflaged ethnicity to disidentify with their Mexican identity, in the context of an ideology of Americanization. It was found that cultural, as well as funerary practice veiled and protected Mexicans by class, thus not having to enact a racialized ethnicity while rejecting culture and language practices associated with being Mexican in public spaces.

Human and Cattle Remains in a Simultaneous Deposit in the Hellenistic Necropolis of Jal al Bahr in Tyre: Initial Investigations

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 19-32
Author(s):  
N. Elias ◽  
Y. Hourani ◽  
R.-M. Arbogast ◽  
G. Sachau-Carcel ◽  
A. Badawi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Funerary Practices ◽  
Burial Practices

Excavations at the Hellenistic necropolis of Jal al Bahr in Tyre (southern Lebanon) have uncovered eight human skeletons buried together with the remains of five cattle crania and mandibles and five vertebral segments (thoracic, lumbar, and sacral vertebrae in various combinations). This deposit, which is separate from the primary single burials in the necropolis, revealed human bodies buried in atypical positions simultaneously with cattle remains and has raised the question of the significance of these remains. Archaeoanthropological and archaeozoological approaches were used in this study to elucidate and discuss funerary practices that differed from the classic burial practices known to exist in Hellenistic Tyre.

scholarly journals PRÁTICAS FUNERÁRIAS NA ARQUEOLOGIA: Pluralidades e Patrimônio

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Maria Aparecida da Silva Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Social Archaeology ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Funerary Practices ◽  
Archaeological Heritage ◽  
Mortuary Studies ◽  
Burial Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
Archaeology Of Death

Este artigo apresenta algumas considerações sobre a importância do estudo das práticas funerárias na arqueologia, com ênfase, ao final, na questão do cemitério como patrimônio. Os problemas de pesquisa relacionados com a arqueologia das práticas funerárias se esbarram com a arqueologia social dos remanescentes funerários, a bioarqueologia social, os estudos mortuários e a arqueologia da morte. Muito aquém dessas pesquisas, no Brasil, os sítios de interesse para esta área de pesquisa foram identificados na legislação federal como existentes, carecendo de demandas significativas de atividades científicas relacionadas às áreas e temas dos estudos mortuários. FUNERARY PRACTICES IN ARCHAEOLOGY: Pluralities and Heritage ABSTRACTThis paper presents some considerations on the importance of the study of burial practices in archaeology, with emphasis, in the end, the question of the cemetery as equity. The research problems related to the archaeology of the funerary practices to collide with the social archaeology of funerary remains, social bioarchaeology, the mortuary studies and archaeology of death. Far short of these surveys in Brazil, sites of interest to this area of research were identified in federal law as existing, lacking significant demands of scientific activities related to the areas and issues of mortuary studies.Keywords: Funerary practices; burial terminology; mortuary studies; archaeological heritage

Coronal Stop Deletion in a Rural South Texas Community

2019 ◽  
pp. 198-214
Author(s):  
Robert Bayley ◽  
Dan Villarreal
Keyword(s):  
South Texas ◽  
Rural South

Soviet war memorials and the re-construction of national and local identities in post-communist Poland

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 509-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewa Ochman
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Memory Space ◽  
War Memorials ◽  
Local Identities ◽  
Memorial Landscape ◽  
Red Army

This article proposes to look afresh at the legacies of communism in urban spaces in post-1989 Poland. Specifically, it investigates the fate of Red Army monuments and explores how these public spaces have been used in the multifaceted and multileveled process of post-communist identity formation. The article suggests that Red Army monuments constitute sites for the articulation of new narratives about the country's past and future which are no longer grounded in the fundamental division between “us” (the nation) and “them” (the supporters of communism) and which are far from being fixed in the binary opposition of the banished and the embraced past. The reorganization of public memory space does not only involve contesting the Soviet past or affirming independence traditions but is rather the outcome of multilayered processes rooted in particularities of time and space. Moreover, the article argues that the dichotomy “liberator versus occupier,” often employed as a viable analytical tool by scholars investigating the post-communist memorial landscape, impedes our understanding of the role played by Soviet war memorials in the process of re-imagining national and local communities in post-1989 Eastern Europe.

scholarly journals The Excavation of Neolithic Pits and a Bronze Age Burial Site at Ness Gap, Fortrose

2020 ◽  
Vol 91 ◽  
pp. 1-38
Author(s):  
Nuala C Woodley ◽  
Julie Lochrie ◽  
Alison Sheridan ◽  
Trevor Cowlie ◽  
Claire Christie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Housing Development ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Burial Site ◽  
Funerary Practices ◽  
Domestic Activity ◽  
Burial Practices ◽  
Cereal Production ◽  
Wild Resources ◽  
The Bronze Age

An investigation by Headland Archaeology (UK) Ltd took place in early 2013 in advance of a housing development at Ness Gap, Fortrose, Highland. The excavation revealed domestic activity dating from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age. A cluster of Neolithic pits provided insights into the development of agriculture in the area, with evidence for cereal production and the gathering of wild resources. The use of the site changed in the Bronze Age, with the landscape utilised for funerary practices, which were represented by stone cists and cremation burials, both urned and unurned. Analysis has further informed on the burial practices of the Bronze Age and added to our understanding of a unique peninsular landscape rich in prehistoric activity. 

An open letter to the editors of the Journal of Language and Sexuality

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikki Lane
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Anthropology ◽  
Open Letter ◽  
Language Practices ◽  
Black Sexuality ◽  
Language Studies ◽  
Queer Linguistics ◽  
Black Life ◽  
Black Language ◽  
Culture And Language ◽  
Do So

Abstract In this open letter, I ask the editors of the Journal and its readers, to reflect on the Journal’s relationship to studies of language and Black sexuality, and consider new ways to reach scholars of Black life, culture, and language. Studies of Black language practices rarely deal with the ways that Black language practices are often complicated by gender/sexuality. And yet, there are scholars doing this work, but like Queer Linguistics, it often doesn’t “look” that way that typical studies of language are supposed to look. This is because linguistics and linguistic anthropology as disciplines have often failed to capture the imagination and attention of these scholars; it is not because studies of Black sexuality and language do not exist. I encourage the Journal then to seek out these studies and to do so with a sense of urgency.

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