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"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 cohab...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Harrison, Robert Pogue
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Death > Psychological aspects.
Death > Social aspects.
Attitude to Death
Mort > Aspect psychologique.
Mort > Aspect social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Death & Dying.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Death, Grief, Bereavement.
Dood.
Begrafenissen.
Psychologische aspecten.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The earth and its dead
  • Hic jacet
  • What is a house?
  • The voice of grief
  • The origin of our basic words
  • Choosing your ancestor
  • Hic non est
  • The names of the dead
  • The afterlife of the image.

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