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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Seebach, Sophie (Editor ), Willerslev, Rane, 1971- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.
Temas:
Death > Cross-cultural studies.
Material culture.
Mort > Études transculturelles.
Culture matérielle.
material culture (discipline)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Death & Dying.
Death
Material culture
Cross-cultural studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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