Grave-Goods as Gifts in Early Saxon Burials (ca. AD 450-600)
| Autor: | John M. King |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
| Předmět: |
010506 paleontology
Archeology Grave goods History 060102 archaeology Scope (project management) Environmental ethics 06 humanities and the arts Some confidence 01 natural sciences Social relation Genealogy Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) 0601 history and archaeology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Social Archaeology. 4:214-238 |
| ISSN: | 1741-2951 1469-6053 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1469605304041076 |
| Popis: | This paper considers the possibility that Anglo-Saxon grave-goods, rather than having been the life possessions of the deceased, may have been gifts to him or her, thereby directly effecting a relationship between the survivors and the donor. This cautions against ‘life-mirror’ approaches to burial data that assume a reflective correspondence between the wealth of the deceased in life and in death. It also takes a Deleuzean approach to signs, emphasizing them as a means of directly producing something, social relations in this case, rather than as a means of communication and as symbols to be decoded. Different lines of evidence are explored to determine, first, if any grave-goods were more likely to have been gifts and then to establish the possible scope of such actions, so that we might have some confidence that we are dealing with a practice, rather than with idiosyncratic, isolated instances. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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