Ethnography of death in Palestine

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com on archaeological grounds.3 However, the whole mortuary theory is based on the assumption that social differentiations, weather by age, sex, social position etc., is reflected by mortuary differentiation of the dead.6 This correlation does not imply that mortuary practices are merely a passive reflection of social life.14 It is also evident that some aspects of mortuary symbolism will not be detected by mortuary analysis and therefore only a minimal level of internal differentiation is expected to be displayed.3,15 But there is no doubt that this mortuary analysis provides archaeologists with a valuable tool to interpret the mortuary archaeological remains. However, In 1980s and 1990s the post-processual scholars argued that mortuary practices are not a simple reflection of social systems.16 New research in the last two decades has focused on mortuary rituals and their role in social memory, identity, gender and location of the burial, with extensive use of ethnographic data. All trends of mortuary analysis However, both processual and post processual approaches recognized the value of ethnographic data in mortuary analysis.