Flames of Transformation: The role of fire in cremation practices
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Flames of Transformation : The role of fire in cremation practices. / Sørensen, Tim Flohr; Bille, Mikkel.
I: World Archaeology, Bind 40, Nr. 2, 2008, s. 253–267.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Flames of Transformation
T2 - The role of fire in cremation practices
AU - Sørensen, Tim Flohr
AU - Bille, Mikkel
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - This paper explores the transformative power of fire, its fundamental ability to change material worlds and affect our experience of its materiality. The paper examines material transformations related to death as a means of illustrating the powerful property of fire as a materially destructive yet socially generative and creative element. While fire has been widely discussed archaeologically as a technological element, and recently coupled with the social and symbolic powers of pyrotechnology, we focus on the sensuous staging of fire in disposal practices. The paper employs two case studies focusing on cremation burial from Bronze Age (c.1300–1100 BC) and modern Denmark in order to demonstrate widely different sensuous engagements with fire and its experiential significance in a cremation context.
AB - This paper explores the transformative power of fire, its fundamental ability to change material worlds and affect our experience of its materiality. The paper examines material transformations related to death as a means of illustrating the powerful property of fire as a materially destructive yet socially generative and creative element. While fire has been widely discussed archaeologically as a technological element, and recently coupled with the social and symbolic powers of pyrotechnology, we focus on the sensuous staging of fire in disposal practices. The paper employs two case studies focusing on cremation burial from Bronze Age (c.1300–1100 BC) and modern Denmark in order to demonstrate widely different sensuous engagements with fire and its experiential significance in a cremation context.
M3 - Journal article
VL - 40
SP - 253
EP - 267
JO - World Archaeology
JF - World Archaeology
SN - 0043-8243
IS - 2
ER -
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