Fire and Death: Cremation as a Ritualised Funerary Practice in the Southern Brazilian Highlands
Author(s): Priscilla Ferreira Ulguim
Year: 2017
Summary
Archaeological evidence from southern Jê mound and enclosure complexes in the southern Brazilian highlands points to the development of a complex funerary ritual focused on the practice of cremation from 1000 BP onwards. Drawing upon bioarchaeological, ethnographic and ethnohistorical analysis, this paper discusses the role of cremation as a ritualised practice aimed at transforming the dead, their body and their relations with society. Patterns of similarities and differences in such practice are observable in the archaeological record at eleven mound and enclosure complex sites with repeated evidence for cremation and the secondary deposition of cremated remains. These patterns are interpreted as negotiable and non-negotiable strategic responses to death.
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Fire and Death: Cremation as a Ritualised Funerary Practice in the Southern Brazilian Highlands. Priscilla Ferreira Ulguim. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, British Columbia. 2017 ( tDAR id: 429731)
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Keywords
General
bioarchaeology
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Cremation
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Funerary Archaeology
Geographic Keywords
South America
Spatial Coverage
min long: -93.691; min lat: -56.945 ; max long: -31.113; max lat: 18.48 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 17611