Mirrors of Passing

Unlocking the Mysteries of Death, Materiality, and Time

308 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Soziologie Sterben und Tod
• ISBN: 9781785338946
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.08.2018
• Größe: 280 x 216 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Herausgegeben von: Rane Willerslev, Sophie Seebach