Summary of the main theoretical approaches and thematic units planned for this session

a)  The death as a boundary: ideological and cultural status of the boundary between norm and infringement, between human and inhuman, between burial and non-burial.

b)  The “Atypical” death: «the Archaeology of War, Disaster, Violence, Crime and Disease»

c) "Atypical deceased”: monstrosity, punishment and social marginalization

d) The “atypical ritual”: «Burial Archaeology of Fear and Magic», from necrophobia to necrophilia

Summary of the main theoretical approaches and thematic units planned for this session

a) Perception and meaning of the rituals emotional dimension

b) Definitions, limits and meaning of ritual landscape

c) Archaeology of rituals “performance”

d) «Constructing deathscapes»: construction and reconstruction of “ritual landscape” in a funerary ritual

e) The dialog between living and dead after burial: offerings, libations, cult of the dead and fragmentation ritual

Summary of the main theoretical approaches and thematic units planned for this session

a) The body as an object and materiality as a person: conceptual and ritual dialectics among objectification and personification

b) The social life cycle of bodies and things: the configuration of a relationship (intended as «network», «enchainment» or «entanglement») between “men” and “things” in the social sphere and in its funeral projection.

c) Dividuality and individuality: interpretive perspectives and material acknowledgment of ritual fragmentation processes in funerary environment

d) Necropolis as networks and places of social production

Summary of the main theoretical approaches and thematic units planned for this session

a) The construction of identity during and after death

b)  Places and bodies: “disappear, remain, reemerge”

c)  The strategies of «cultural control of putrefaction» between archaeology and anthropology

d)  Beyond putrefaction: intentional interventions on bodies after death