Materialities of Passing

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.

Preface; Introducing materialities of passing, Peter Bjerregaard, Anders Emil Rasmussen and Tim Flohr Sørensen. Part I Metamorphosis: Passing as Movement Between Categories: Temporalities of transience and the mortuary landscape: the example of natural burial, Jenny Hockey, Andy Clayden, Trish Green and Mark Powell; Material dys-appearance: decaying futures and contested temporal passage, Martin Demant Frederiksen; Passage and passing: movement, boundary and presence in neolithic mortuary architecture, Tim Flohr Sørensen; Still in the picture: photographs at graves and social time, Anne Kjærsgaard and Eric Venbrux. Part II Transition: Detachment and Continuing Bonds: Understanding self-care: passing and healing in contemporary Serbia, Maja Petrović-Šteger; Doubting the dead: approximations of passing in a Papua New Guinean community, Anders Emil Rasmussen; Untimely death and spirit mobility in a Southern African border zone, Per Ditlef Fredriksen; Postmortem photography and two visual representations, Susan Matland. Part III Transience: Passing On, Passing Through: The third burial: passing between worlds and points of transformation among the Siberian Chukchi, Jeanette Lykkegård; Ambiguous mobility in the Viking Age ship burial from Oseberg, Jan Bill; Assembling the ‘spark of life’, Peter Bjerregaard and Rane Willerslev; Anterior origins: Merleau-Ponty and the archaeology of the body, Dylan Trigg