Mirrors of passing: unlocking the mysteries of death, materiality, and time
"Without exception, all people are faced with the inevitability of death, a stark fact that has immeasurably shaped societies and individual consciousness for the whole of human history. Mirrors of Passing offers a powerful window into this oldest of human preoccupations by investigating the in...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York Oxford
Berghahn Books
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Volumes / Articles: | Show volumes/articles. |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Temporality
/ Death
/ Culture
/ History
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| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Death Cross-cultural studies B Material Culture B Death Cross-cultural studies |
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Table of Contents |
| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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| Summary: | "Without exception, all people are faced with the inevitability of death, a stark fact that has immeasurably shaped societies and individual consciousness for the whole of human history. Mirrors of Passing offers a powerful window into this oldest of human preoccupations by investigating the interrelationships of death, materiality, and temporality across far-flung times and places. Stretching as far back as Ancient Egypt and Greece and moving through present-day locales as diverse as Western Europe, Central Asia, and the Arctic, each of the richly illustrated essays collected here draw on a range of disciplinary insights to explore some of the most fundamental, universal questions that confront us"-- The time of the dead : anthropology, literature, and the virtual past / Stuart McLean -- Orpheus in love, death, and time / Marina Prusac-Lindhagen -- Death before time : mythical time in ancient Egyptian mortuary religion / Rune Nyord -- When bad places turn worse : the necropolitics of death sites in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / Per Ditlef Fredriksen -- Narratives of ebola : temporal & material changes of social riverscapes / Theresa Ammann -- "Saving the dead" : fighting for life in the Siberian north / Rane Willerslev & Jeanette Lykkegaard -- Death, rebirth, objects, and time in North American traditional Inuit societies : an overview / Matthew J. Walsh and Sean O'Neill -- Transforming and creating multiple worlds : strange attractors in the Mongolian landscape / Malthe Lehrmann -- The dead among the living : materiality and time in rethinking death and otherness in lowland South America / Clarissa Martins Lima and Felipe Vander Velden -- Making presence : time work and narratives in bereaved parents' online grief work / Dorthe Refslund Christensen and Kjetil Sandvik -- The multiple identities of Aslak Hætta and Mons Somby : the case of the Sami skulls / Susan Matland -- Media, ritual, and immortality : the case of a masculine hero / Johanna Sumiala -- The temporality and materiality of life and death in a Sepik village / Christiane Falck -- The wonderful exhibition that almost was / Alexandra Schössler |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1785339087 |