Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Nebraska, 1925. / Without thesis note. Bibliography: p. 135-138.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Pittsburgh, 1988. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-288).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ohio University, August, 2006. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-203)

Thesis (M. Div.)--St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, Crestwood, NY, 2007. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 65-66).

No / This book focuses on mortuary practices in the Neolithic Near East to challenge some of the common assumptions about death and the dead body. It explores the way the corpse was treated during the period, in the process raising new questions about identity, personhood, and gender in the past, as well as concepts such as social memory and ‘ancestors’. It also examines the webs of relationships between people, their environments, and their new material world, between humans and animals, and between the living and the dead. Using a case-study approach, the book highlights differences and similarities as well as patterns in archaeological evidence. In addition, it analyses alternative perspectives on gendered identities and family roles, along with human-animal relationships, possible consumption of the human body and animals, and the notion of animals as ancestors. In this chapter, cultural attitudes to death and dying, including practical aspects of dealing with the dead and the emotional reactions of grieving and mourning, are discussed.

Chan Yuk Wah. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 130-143). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract (English) --- p.ii / Abstract (Chinese) --- p.iii / Acknowledgement --- p.iv / List of Plates --- p.v / Chapter I. --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter II. --- Funeral History and Funerals Today --- p.17 / Chapter III. --- Packaging Traditions: Commercialization of Funerary Services --- p.38 / Chapter IV. --- Management of the Body --- p.57 / Chapter V. --- Management of the Soul --- p.74 / Chapter VI. --- Management of Death Pollution --- p.95 / Chapter VII. --- Conclusion: Social Transformation and Cultural Persistence --- p.111 / Appendices --- p.118 / Plates --- p.124 / Bibliography --- p.130

published_or_final_version / Fine Arts / Master / Master of Philosophy

Sze Ki Shan Ida. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2000-2001, design report." / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 63). / Library's copy: leaf 31 missing. / Preface --- p.01 / Table of content --- p.02 / Initiation --- p.03 / Exposition --- p.04 / Synthesis of loss --- p.04 / Soft disappearance --- p.06 / Tai O experience --- p.07 / Tragedy in architecture --- p.09 / Thesis statement --- p.10 / Conceptual framework --- p.11 / Redefine Identity for the place of death --- p.11 / Juxtaposition of contradictions --- p.12 / Investigation of lost space --- p.13 / Architecture to reconstruct death --- p.14 / Hapticity & time --- p.15 / Synthesis --- p.17 / Meaning of death --- p.17 / Death is loss / Death Ritual: a life policy against fragility / Meaning of death architecture --- p.19 / Search for immortality / Transition and transformation / Power of weakness --- p.22 / "Recognition, acceptance & rebirth" / Architecture as memento mori / Existing state --- p.24 / Background --- p.24 / Hong Kong death culture / Implication of changes / Site justification --- p.32 / Site analysis [regional] --- p.34 / Site analysis [local] --- p.44 / Client profiles --- p.51 / Future state --- p.53 / Design issues --- p.53 / Formulation of programs --- p.56 / List of users & activities --- p.57 / Schedule of accommodation --- p.58 / Appendix --- p.59 / Precedence --- p.59 / Igualada Cemetery / Brion Cemetery / Location of places of death --- p.62 / Bibliography --- p.63

Thesis (M.A.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of Anthropology, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 84-93).

This study investigates prehistoric West Mexican mortuary activities as technological systems. That is, the production, distribution, and use of mortuary ceramics are considered within a social context. Changes in technology are related to social and ideational changes in the society. In the past, interest in West Mexico has been stimulated by the large number of Pre-columbian ceramic figurines found in museums and private collections worldwide. Lacking more specific information, the art world created a "cult of the dead" to describe the people who made these figurines. Today, evidence on mortuary behavior and lifeways clearly demonstrates that these people were involved in many kinds of activities. This study aims to define mortuary activity within a context of technological, social, and ideational structures. Within this framework, technological changes occurring between the late Formative and the Classic period (200 B.C. to A.D. 700) at two small sites in the Valley of Atemajac were compared to changes occurring at the center of the region, 50 kilometers away. Technical analysis of the artifacts using optical, electron optical, and x-ray techniques was carried out. When combined with grosser archaeological categories regarding the treatment of the interred, and the distribution of artifacts within and between tombs, this resulted in a technological reconstruction of the production, distribution, and use of the mortuary ceramics. This technological reconstruction was placed within a regional context, based on inferences built from settlement pattern and architectural data as well as ethnohistoric records. Technological reconstruction resulted in the unconditional conclusion that the technical, social and ideational changes seen in the Valley of Atemajac could only be due to a discontinuity in site occupation, and later resettlement by outsiders.