A morte 'o ssajeched'è?: strategie e contraddizioni dell'antropo-pòiesi al margine tra la vita e la morte. Una prospettiva archeologica

In keeping with the main theoretical approaches and themes under consideration in the present session (a. The Construction of Identity Before and After Death; b. Places and Bodies: To Disappear, Remain, Reemerge; c. Strategies of ‘Cultural Control of Putrefaction’: Between Archaeology and Anthropology; d. Beyond Putrefaction: Manipulation of the Body after Death), the author attempts to bring together the approach of Remotti and his School to tanatosemiologia and the archaeological evidence from the protohistoric necropoleis of Central Tyrrhenian Italy. The result is an archaeological reinterpretation of the processes related to anthropopoiesis from the 10th to 7th c. BCE and a reformulation of those processes on an anthropological basis, which allows one to offer alternative hypotheses with regard to patterns of biritualism and the strategies, choices, reasoning – rational and irrational – that may explain those patterns. The differences revealed between the Villanovan and Latin spheres are particularly meaningful and instructive.