Section I, Theories, time, and space / Gordon F.M. Rakita and Jane E. Buikstra --

Archaeology of death as anthropology / Douglas K. Charles --

Mortuary analysis : a matter of time? / Robert William Chapman --

Gender and agency in mortuary fashion / Aubrey Cannon --

Chiribaya political economy : a bioarchaeological perspective / Jane E. Buikstra [and others] --

Social dimensions of mortuary space / Wendy Ashmore and Pamela L. Geller --

Section II, Bodies and souls ; Corrupting flesh : reexamining Hertz's perspective on mummification and cremation / Gordon F.M. Rakita and Jane E. Buikstra --

Forgetting the dead, remembering enemies / Suzanne Oakdale --

Mortuary "laying-in" crypts of the Hopewell site : beyond the funerary paradigm / A. Martin Byers --

Mummies, cults, and ancestors : the Chinchorro mummies of the south central Andes / Sonia E. Guillén --

Secondary burial practices in Hohokam cremations / Lane A. Beck --

Excarnation, evisceration, and exhumation in Medieval and post-Medieval Europe / Estella Weiss-Krejci --

Death and remembrance in Medieval France : a case study from the Augustinian monastery of Saint-Jean-des Vignes, Soissons / Stephan Naji --

Mortuary practices and ritual use of human bone in Tibet / Nancy J. Malville --

Section III, Sacrifice, violence, and veneration / Gordon F.M. Rakita and Jane E. Buikstra --

Understanding veneration and violation in the archaeological record / William N. Duncan --

Bioarchaeology and taphonomy of mortuary ritual on the Sepik Coast, Papua New Guinea / Ann L.W. Stodder --

Were Nasca trophy heads war trophies or revered ancestors? : insights from the Kroeber collection / Kathleen Forgey and Sloan R. Williams --

Human sacrifice and postmortem modification of the Pyramid of the Moon, Moche Valley, Peru / John W. Verano --

Mortuary pathways leading to the Cenote at Chichén Itzá / Lane A. Beck and April K. Sievert --

Putting the dead to work : an examination of the use of human bone in prehistoric Guam / Judith R. McNeill.