On Our Way : The Final Passage through Life and Death /
Publisher's description: How do our ideas about dying influence the way we live? Life has often been envisioned as a journey, the river of time carrying us inexorably toward the unknown country--and in our day we increasingly turn to myth and magic, ritual and virtual reality, cloning and cryos...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press,
2004.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of illustrations
- 1. Here we are
- 2. Practicing death : some rituals of everyday life
- 3. Good death, bad death (I) : in other times and places
- 4. Good death, bad death (II) : here and now
- 5. Corpsed persons
- 6. Abusing and eating the dead
- 7. Too many dead : the plague and other mass deaths
- 8. Down to earth and up in flames
- 9. Journey of the dead
- 10. Living through
- Notes
- Sources cited
- Index.