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Going Underground: The Meanings of Death and Burial for Minority Groups in Israel is about the attitudes towards death and burial in contemporary society. It provides information on the attitudes of several minority groups living in Israel today, including four communities of Russian Jews, an ultra-religious Jewish community and a Palestinian-Christian community. ‘Going Underground’ has a double meaning: it refers to the actions taken by archaeologists to inquire about the past and present and involves digging and recording. Second, it considers the challenges and protests launched by the groups of immigrants and minorities mentioned in the book, against state-control over death.

Table of Contents
Preface and acknowledgments ;
Reflections on death and burial ;
Methodology: The northern cemetery ;
The interviews: The northern cemetery ;
The urban cemetery, kibbutz cemetery and public cemeteries ;
A nominalist approach: Archaeology of remembrance and contemporary archaeology ;
Conclusion: The assemblage theory, or is there an anthropology of death and burial?

Going Underground: The Meanings of Death and

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      Publisher Archaeopress
      Published 25 February 2021
      ISBN-13 9781789696196
      978-1789696196
      ISBN-10 1789696194
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      Archaeological theory Sociology: death and dying

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Going Underground: The Meanings of Death and Burial for Minority Groups in Israel is about the attitudes towards death and burial in contemporary society. It provides information on the attitudes of several minority groups living in Israel today, including four communities of Russian Jews, an ultra-religious Jewish community and a Palestinian-Christian community. ‘Going Underground’ has a double meaning: it refers to the actions taken by archaeologists to inquire about the past and present and involves digging and recording. Second, it considers the challenges and protests launched by the groups of immigrants and minorities mentioned in the book, against state-control over death.

      Table of Contents
      Preface and acknowledgments ;
      Reflections on death and burial ;
      Methodology: The northern cemetery ;
      The interviews: The northern cemetery ;
      The urban cemetery, kibbutz cemetery and public cemeteries ;
      A nominalist approach: Archaeology of remembrance and contemporary archaeology ;
      Conclusion: The assemblage theory, or is there an anthropology of death and burial?

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