Mirrors of passing : unlocking the mysteries of death, materiality, and time / edited by Sophie Seebach and Rane Willerslev.
Seebach, Sophie, editor.; Willerslev, Rane, 1971- editor.
2018
GN485.5 .M57 2018
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Title
Mirrors of passing : unlocking the mysteries of death, materiality, and time / edited by Sophie Seebach and Rane Willerslev.
ISBN
9781785339080 (hardback : alk. paper)
9781785338946 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781785338953 (e-book)
Published
New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (306 pages) : color illustrations.
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GN485.5 .M57 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.9
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Seebach, Sophie, editor.
Willerslev, Rane, 1971- editor.
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