The Dominion of the Dead
How do the living maintain relations to the dead? Why do we bury people when they die? And what is at stake when we do? In The Dominion of the Dead, Robert Pogue Harrison considers the supreme importance of these questions to Western civilization, exploring the many places where the dead cohabit the...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Chicago
University of Chicago Press
2010
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| In: | Year: 2010 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Psychology
/ Death
B Death / Grief / Culture B Death / History of ideas B Death / Culture / Psychology |
| Further subjects: | B
Death
Social aspects
B Death ; Psychological aspects B Electronic books B Death Psychological aspects B Death ; Social aspects |
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| Summary: | How do the living maintain relations to the dead? Why do we bury people when they die? And what is at stake when we do? In The Dominion of the Dead, Robert Pogue Harrison considers the supreme importance of these questions to Western civilization, exploring the many places where the dead cohabit the world of the living-the graves, images, literature, architecture, and monuments that house the dead in their afterlife among us. This elegantly conceived work devotes particular attention to the practice of burial. Harrison contends that we bury our dead to humanize the lands where we build our pre |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| ISBN: | 0226317919 |