The Poetics of Processing: Memory Formation, Identity, and the Handling of the Dead

In 2002, Neil Whitehead published Dark Shamans: Kanaim and the Poetics of Violent Death, in which he applied the concept of poetics to the study of violence and observed the power of violence in the creation and expression of identity and social relationships. The Poetics of Processing applies Whitehead's theory on violence to mortuary and skeletal assemblages in the Andes, Mexico, the US Southwest, Jordan, Ethiopia, Egypt, and Turkey,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1646420608
• ISBN13: 9781646420605
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: University Press of Colorado
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up