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‘Passing’ is a common euphemism for the death of a person, as he or she is said to ‘pass away’ or ‘pass on’. This open-ended saying has at its heart a notion of transformation from one state to another, which in turn grants the possibility of grasping or approximating the passage of time and the materiality of death and decay. This book begins with the idea that since all material things - whether animals, human beings, objects or buildings - undergo some form of passing, then the specific transformation in these passages and the materiality actively given to it can offer us a grasp of otherwise precarious temporalities. It examines how human beings strive to relate to the temporal dimension of death and decay, by giving new shape and direction to being and by examining its natural transformations. Focusing on the materiality of passing, and thereby the relationship between embodiment, temporality and death, Materialities of Passing offers rich case studies from Europe, Papua New Guinea, South Africa and the Russian Far East for exploring the material, spatial and directional aspects of the very interface between life and death. As such, it will appeal to scholars of anthropology, death studies, archaeology, philosophy and cultural studies.

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Societies around the world are struggling to understand new forms of life, death, and materiality. This fascinating volume places such struggles in a long term, cross-cultural perspective on being and nothingness. We are asked to refuse the binaries of subject and object, to pause on processes of unbecoming, and to consider the inherent uncertainty of ontology. A vitalizing read.

Shannon Lee Dawdy, University of Chicago, USA

List of Figures
vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Preface xiii
Acknowledgements xv
Introducing Materialities of Passing 1(26)
Peter Bjerregaard
Anders Emil Rasmussen
Tim Flohr Sørensen
PART I TRANSFORMATION: PASSING AS MOVEMENT BETWEEN CATEGORIES
1 Temporalities of Transience and the Mortuary Landscape: The Example of Natural Burial
27(22)
Jenny Hockey
Andy Clayden
Trish Green
Mark Powell
2 Material Dys-appearance: Decaying Futures and Contested Temporal Passage
49(16)
Martin Demant Frederiksen
3 Passage and Passing: Movement, Boundary and Presence in Neolithic Mortuary Architecture
65(20)
Tim Flohr Sørensen
4 Still in the Picture: Photographs at Graves and Social Time
85(28)
Anne Kjoersgaard
Eric Venbrux
PART II TRANSITION: DETACHMENT AND CONTINUING BONDS
5 Understanding Self-Care: Passing and Healing in Contemporary Serbia
113(18)
Maja Petrovic-Steger
6 Doubting the Dead: Approximations of Passing in a Papua New Guinean Community
131(16)
Anders Emil Rasmussen
7 Untimely Death and Spirit Mobility in a Southern African Border Zone
147(20)
Per Ditlef Fredriksen
8 Post-Mortem Photography and Two Visual Representations
167(20)
Susan Matland
PART III TRANSIENCE: PASSING ON, PASSING THROUGH
9 The Third Burial: Passing between Worlds and Points of Transformation among the Siberian Chukchi
187(20)
Jeanette Lykkegard
10 Ambiguous Mobility in the Viking Age Ship Burial from Oseberg
207(14)
Jan Bill
11 Assembling the `Spark of Life'
221(18)
Peter Bjerregaard
Rane Willerslev
12 Anterior Origins: Merleau-Ponty and the Archaeology of the Body
239(12)
Dylan Trigg
Index 251
Peter Bjerregaard is senior adviser of exhibitions at Museum of Cultural History at the University of Oslo, Norway. Anders Emil Rasmussen is a curator at the Vejle Museums, Denmark. Tim Flohr Sørensen is Assistant Professor of Archaeology at the Saxo Institute at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.