The Regeneration of Life
The Regeneration of Life
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生命的重生
作者：
I. Kuijt
身份和记忆的社会建构可以通过公共仪式来表达。在近东新石器时代，殡葬活动的组织、图像和雕像的重复使用，以及人类头骨的长期重复使用，都说明了家庭仪式是如何将生者与死者联系在一起的。二级太平间的做法和人类头骨的抹灰和绘画作为仪式的传家宝，是一种纪念和消除社区内身份的形式。在建筑和装饰中对面部的刻意关注是共同的仪式实践系统的一部分。头骨缓存和修改超越了过去、现在和未来，重申了对未来死亡事件的期望，同时通过记忆的制作认识到与过去的连续性。总的来说，这些模式代表了一个复杂的互动网络，涉及仪式知识、意象、殡葬实践以及代际记忆和权威结构的创造。
The social construction of identity and memory can be expressed through public ritual. The organization of mortuary practices, the repetitive use of imagery and figurines, and the long‐term reuse of human skulls in the Near Eastern Neolithic illustrate how household ritual linked the living to the dead. Secondary mortuary practices and the plastering and painting of human skulls as ritual heirlooms served as a form of memorialization and erasure of identity within communities. The deliberate focus on the face in both construction and decoration was part of a shared system of ritual practices. Skull caching and modification transcended the past, present, and future, reiterating the expectation of future mortuary events while simultaneously recognizing continuity with the past through the crafting of memory. Collectively these patterns represent a complex web of interaction involving ritual knowledge, imagery, mortuary practices, and the creation of intergenerational memory and structures of authority.