'Board Games in Boat Burials: Play in the Performance of Migration and Viking Age Mortuary Practice' by Mark A. Hall

Title

'Board Games in Boat Burials: Play in the Performance of Migration and Viking Age Mortuary Practice' by Mark A. Hall

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Article

Description

This contribution explores an aspect of boat burials in the second half of the first millennium ad across Northern Europe, specifically boat burials that included equipment for board games (surviving variously as boards and playing pieces, playing pieces only, or dice and playing pieces). Entangled aspects of identity, gender, cosmogony, performance, and commemoration are considered within a framework of cultural citation and connection between death and play. The crux of this article's citational thrust is the notion of quoting life in the rituals surrounding death. This was done both in the service of the deceased and in the service of those wanting to remember the deceased, the argument distills around the biographical trajectories or the different social and individual uses to which people put ostensibly simple things such as gaming pieces.

European Journal of Archaeology, Volume 19, Issue 3, 2016
Special Issue: Mortuary Citations: Death and Memory in the Viking World

Creator

Mark A. Hall

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Publisher

European Journal of Archaeology

Date

06/07/2016

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Mark A. Hall

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http://www.tandfonline.com/
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/yeja20/current

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Language

English

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Identifier

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14619571.2016.1175774

Coverage

Viking Age, Migration Period

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