부산대학교 도서관

Chapter 2 discusses how native engagements with time can be examined in the archaeology of death ritual. As colonial rule is often enacted through control over local marriage and funerary customs, the mortuary domain emerges as a distinctive space where the regulation of social reproduction and community relations is potentially contested. Local lifetimes and the collective planning of rituals intersect to complicate the singular effects of state genealogy to simply define life and death. Focusing the analysis on funerary landscapes and how Bronze Age societies remembered persons and places, chapter 2 elaborates a new approach to examine how biographies and kin histories incorporate time and space. By tracing how and when mortuary rituals are enacted, the chapter discusses the relationship between mourning and memory. The chapter addresses the conceptual significance of “mnemonics” and “heirlooms,” in particular how these varying object biographies work a sense of recurrent, segmented, and suspended temporalities.