Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
Description
This paper investigates how individual and collective memories regarding deceased individuals were shaped by the physical space of their tombs. Space is a social production: more than a physical area for the movement of people, it has meaning, which is (re)negotiated by human interaction. As such, this paper considers the design of the tomb as crucial to the experience of its visitors and, therefore, to the way the deceased was memorialized and remembered by the living. Focusing on a few tombs of the 3rd millennium BCE as case-studies, this paper foregrounds the importance of physical and visual aids in the crafting of memory and remembrance, considering both the individual agency of the tomb owner in designing and building the tomb as a monument to his/her memory, and the importance of the experience of the tomb visitor as an agent in perpetuating the memory of the deceased.
Period
28 May 2022
Event title
24th Annual Mediterranean Studies Association International Congress, Lisbon, 25- 28 May 2022