Unusual Death and Memorialization

Titta Kallio-Seppä (PhD) works as a Museum Director at the Museum of Tornio Valley, Finland. She specializes in historical archaeology, urban archaeology, dendrochronology, and material culture of churches.

“The book contains much fascinating and important information and will no doubt inspire further study. As it stands, it is one to recommend to all those interested in the histories of the forgotten.” • Church Moments“This book full of case studies provides a small but important glimpse into how death, burial and memory are handled in the European north.” • Thomas Hönigmann, Forensic Archaeology Working Group, Vienna

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: In Search of Unusual in Early Modern and Modern Burial TraditionsTitta Kallio-Seppä, Sanna Lipkin, Annemari Tranberg, Tiina Väre, and Ulla MoilanenMemorials, Graveyards, Epidemics: Inequality, Disease and Sudden DeathChapter 1. Forgotten and Remembered: Unusual Memorial Practices at Buffalo’s old CemeteriesSanna LipkinChapter 2. Reactions to Tragedy: Familial and Community Memorials to Sudden Occupational Deaths in Britain and IrelandHarold MytumChapter 3. Memory of Epidemic Diseases in Finland: Old Disease Cemeteries and Modern Urban PlanningTitta Kallio-Seppä and Tiina VäreChapter 4. Freethinkers’ Cemeteries and Local Secular Burial Culture in FinlandIlona PajariPeculiar Burial PlacesChapter 5. Death during retreat – the burials of Carolean soldiers in Jämtland and Trøndelag (Sweden and Norway)Kristina JonssonChapter 6. Taken to the Island. Temporary Burials in Early and Late Modern Periods in Finnish PeripheryTiina Väre and Juha RuohonenMemories and Folklore of Unusual DeathChapter 7. “On the Apparitions of Drowned Men”: Folklore and the Memory of Unnatural Death at Haffjarðarey, Western IcelandSarah HoffmanChapter 8. The Death is Living with Us – Witchcraft at the East Coast of Bothnian Bay during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth CenturiesAnnemari TranbergUnusual Cause of DeathChapter 9. The cause of Death – Arsenic or Mercury? Investigation of Human Remains from Entombments in the Moscow Kremlin (Sixteenth – Early Seventeenth Century)  T. D. Panova, A. Yu. Dmitriev, S. B. Borzakov and C. HramcoChapter 10. Sawed Skulls - Archaeological Evidence of Medico-legal Autopsies in FinlandUlla Moilanen, Anne-Mari Liira, Heli Lehto, Kati Salo, Maija Helamaa, and Kari UotilaAfterwordMilton NúñezIndex