@article{f6c67b4150f34137849bafed241fecf9,
title = "Flames of Transformation: The role of fire in cremation practices",
abstract = "This paper explores the transformative power of fire, its fundamental ability to change materialworlds and affect our experience of its materiality. The paper examines material transformationsrelated to death as a means of illustrating the powerful property of fire as a materially destructive yetsocially generative and creative element. While fire has been widely discussed archaeologically as atechnological element, and recently coupled with the social and symbolic powers of pyrotechnology,we focus on the sensuous staging of fire in disposal practices. The paper employs two case studiesfocusing on cremation burial from Bronze Age (c.1300–1100 BC) and modern Denmark in order todemonstrate widely different sensuous engagements with fire and its experiential significance in acremation context.",
author = "S{\o}rensen, {Tim Flohr} and Mikkel Bille",
year = "2008",
language = "English",
volume = "40",
pages = "253–267",
journal = "World Archaeology",
issn = "0043-8243",
publisher = "Routledge",
number = "2",
}