Part I. Fire and the Body : Re-framing Perspectives on Cremation
Contextualizing Cremations : Introduction to Fire and the Body / Colin P. Quinn, Ian Kuijt, and Gabriel Cooney
Complexities of Terminologies and Intellectual Frameworks in Cremation Studies / Colin P. Quinn, Lynne Goldstein, Gabriel Cooney, Ian Kuijt (Mini-essay)
Part II. Connecting Treatments of the Body : Cremation and Inhumation as Social Practices
Socially Responsible and Culturally Conscious Approaches to Cremations : New and Old World Perspectives / Liv Nilsson Stutz and David Hurst Thomas (Mini-essay)
Reconcilable Differences : Cremation, Fragmentation and Inhumation in Mesolithic and Neolithic Sweden / Åsa M Larsson and Liv Nilsson Stutz
The Temporal and Cultural Contexts of the Enigmatic Cremations from the Yokem Site, Illinois, USA / Mark R. Schurr and Della Cook
A Well-Urned Rest : Cremation and Inhumation in Early Anglo-Saxon England / Howard Williams
Cremation, Gender and Concepts of the Self in the British Early Bronze Age / Joanna Brück
Part III. Social Impact of Cremation : Transformation, Movement and the Body
Reflections on the Visibility of Cremation as a Physical Event / Liv Nilsson Stutz and Ian Kuijt (Mini-essay)
Pathways to Personhood : Cremation as a Social Practice among the Tucson Basin Hohokam / Jessica. I. Cerezo-Román
Re/turn : Cremation, movement and re-collection in the Early Bronze Age of Denmark / Tim Flohr Sørensen
The Role of Cremation in Mortuary Practices in the Irish Neolithic / Gabriel Cooney
Transformation and Metaphors : Thoughts on Cremation Practices in the Pre-Contact Midwestern United States / Lynne Goldstein and Katy Meyers
Part IV. Reassembling the Pieces : Future Directions
Cremations : Techniques, Potential, Challenges / Mark R. Schurr (Mini-essay)
Future Directions for the Archaeology of Cremation / Jessica. I. Cerezo-Román and Howard Williams.
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Transformation by fire : the archaeology of cremation in cultural context. ISBN 9780816531141. Published by The University of Arizona Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
