Call for papers - "Death Without Funera... These two study days propose to initiate a diachronic and interdisciplinary reflection (associating archeology, social anthropology and history) in order to address, on the one hand, the diversity of motivations that lead to deprivation. intentional funeral and, on the other hand, the intellectual development which makes it possible from only archaeological data to attest to the absence of funeral treatment. We therefore wish to devote a first day to cases of deprivation of funerals which question the status of individuals (condemned to death, defeated in battles, slave, elderly or disabled person, etc.), and a second to cases which question the circumstances or the cause of death (death, suicide, etc.). Presentation Mortuary practices that do not include funerals or burials deserve special attention. Indeed, refusing access to funerals testifies to the disqualification of certain individuals according to their status, the circumstances of their death or some of their acts, which provides essential information on the functioning of societies from yesterday to today. Thus historians and social anthropologists have shown that some societies deprived slaves of funerals, while others treated the remains of suicides in a discriminatory way, and that for still others the corpses of criminals or those defeated in war should simply be thrown in the garbage after they are killed. Moreover, the question of the fate of stillborn children continues to generate much ink indicating the difficulty in deciding on the truly funeral nature of the treatment of their remains. In archaeological contexts, if it is admitted that a deposit of human remains is not systematically the result of a funeral treatment, there have been, to date, only few attempts to reference and compare orderly mortuary practices that deprive some individuals of funerals. The fact that this field of research was slow to develop is due to several causes. On the one hand, it is probable that a non-funeral treatment of remains has less chance of producing material traces that can be exploited by archaeologists, but this delay also poses the problem of identifying treatments that are not funeral from archaeological data. These study days therefore propose to initiate an interdisciplinary and diachronic reflection in order to address, on the one hand, the diversity of the motivations which lead to the intentional deprivation of funerals and, on the other hand, the intellectual journey which allows archaeological data attesting to the absence of funeral treatment. We therefore wish to devote a first day to cases of deprivation of funerals which question the status of individuals (condemned to death, defeated in battles, slave, elderly or disabled person, etc.), and a second to cases which question the circumstances or the cause of death (death, suicide, etc.). Methods of contribution We are waiting for communications that would directly help to shed light on either of these two days. Papers which may relate to case studies, situations or unique contexts, will not exceed 25 minutes and will be presented in pairs, followed by one hour of discussion. Proposals ( 500 words maximum ) should be sent to sansfunerailles@gmail.com accompanied by a brief bibliography including the discipline, affiliation and full contact details of the author, before March 31, 2021. Organization Aurore Schmitt (CNRS-ASM) Elisabeth Anstett (CNRS-ADES) Location: Salle Kouros - Paul Valéry University - Saint Charles 2 site in Montpellier, France (34). Date: Wednesday March 31, 2021