Going Underground.

• Author: Shay, Talia.
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Archaeopress,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (107 pages)

This volume 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.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents Page -- List of figures and tables -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Reflections on death and burial -- Introduction -- Funerals and gender -- Field trips -- Courses on death and burial -- Indigenous archaeology -- The change of ideas -- References -- Figure 1.1 British Cemetery, Haifa -- Figure 1.2 Ceremony for Indian soldiers, British Cemetery, Haifa -- Figure 1.1 British Cemetery, Haifa -- Figure 1.2 Ceremony for Indian soldiers, British Cemetery, Haifa -- Methodology: The northern cemetery -- Introduction -- Classification/corpus of the northern cemetery -- Table 2.1: Age at death by period, northern cemetery -- Table 2.2: Size of base of adult graves by row, northern cemetery -- Table 2.3: Social and cultural factors mentioned in epitaphs, northern cemetery -- The public sphere -- References -- Figure 2.1 Neglect of the northern cemetery -- Figure 2.2 Grave of a homeless person, northern cemetery -- Figure 2.3 Cemetery workers, northern cemetery -- Figure 2.4 'Soviet' fence, northern cemetery -- Figure 2.1 Neglect of the northern cemetery -- Figure 2.2 Grave of a homeless person, northern cemetery -- Figure 2.3 Cemetery workers, northern cemetery -- Figure 2.4 'Soviet' fence, northern cemetery -- The interviews: The northern cemetery -- Introduction -- The cemetery and its population -- The interviews -- Epilogue -- References -- Figure 3.1 Land seizure in the northern cemetery -- Figure 3.2 Grave of A's father, northern cemetery -- Figure 3.3 Subsidence in the northern cemetery -- Figure 3.4 Late gravestone with rose relief, northern cemetery -- Figure 3.5 Late gravestone with bilingual inscription, northern cemetery -- Figure 3.1 Land seizure in the northern cemetery -- Figure 3.2 Grave of A's father, northern cemetery -- Figure 3.3 Subsidence in the northern cemetery.

Figure 3.4 Late gravestone with rose relief, northern cemetery -- Figure 3.5 Late gravestone with bilingual inscription, northern cemetery -- The urban cemetery, kibbutz cemetery and public cemeteries -- An urban cemetery (an archaeological corpus) -- Introduction -- A kibbutz cemetery -- Public cemeteries -- References -- The urban cemetery, kibbutz cemetery and public cemeteries -- An urban cemetery (an archaeological corpus) -- Introduction -- A kibbutz cemetery -- Public cemeteries -- References -- Figure 4.1 Multilevel burials and field burials, urban cemetery -- Figure 4.2 Gates of the urban cemetery -- Figure 4.3 Crowded graves in the urban cemetery -- Figure 4.1 Multilevel burials and field burials, urban cemetery -- Figure 4.2 Gates of the urban cemetery -- Figure 4.3 Crowded graves in the urban cemetery -- A nominalist approach -- Introduction -- The Palestinian-Christian cemetery -- An anthropological 'Other': the haredim -- Conclusion -- References -- Figure 5.1 The Palestinian-Christian cemetery -- Figure 5.2 Graves of ultra-religious Jews, Beth Shemesh, near Jerusalem -- Figure 5.1 The Palestinian-Christian cemetery -- Figure 5.2 Graves of ultra-religious Jews, Beth Shemesh, near Jerusalem -- Conclusion -- The endless cycle of ideas: archaeology, history, anthropology -- Archaeological ethics -- References -- Back Cover.