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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction.- Part I: Building a Model of Poetics in Bioarchaeology.- Chapter 2. Poetics and Identity.- Chapter 3. Bioarchaeology and the Bodies.- Chapter 4. Mortuary archaeology: what do we learn from mortuary contexts?.- Chapter 5. The Poetics of Processing: Bodies as Cultural Media.- Part II: Applying the Model.- Chapter 6. Preservation as Processing.- Chapter 7. Inhumation and Cremation.- Chapter 8. A few famous cemeteries.- Chapter 9. The (in)famous Dead.- Part III: Modern Interactions with the Dead.- Chapter 10. Cremation and the disposal of ashes.- Chapter 11. Modern Interactions with the Dead.- Chapter 12. Modern Memorialization.- Part IV: Bodies and Politics.- Chapter 13. Nation Building with Bodies.- Chapter 14. NAGPRA, Sovereignty, and the Ancestors.- Part V: Bodies and Material Culture.- Chapter 15. The Body in Education, Art, and Religion.- Chapter 16. Relics and Reliquaries.- Chapter 17. Wrapping Up: the Poetics of Mortuary Performance and Us.
