"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 wher…
"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 wher…
"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 wher…
Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death. Increasing academic attention toward death as a historical subject in its own right is very much linked to its pre-eminent place in 20th-century history, and Germany, predictably, occupies a special …
"Living Through the Dead investigates the archaeology of death and commemoration through thematically linked case studies drawn from the Classical world. These investigations stress the processes of burial and commemoration as inherently social and designed for an audience, and …
"Living Through the Dead investigates the archaeology of death and commemoration through thematically linked case studies drawn from the Classical world. These investigations stress the processes of burial and commemoration as inherently social and designed for an audience, and …
"Diese Monographie arbeitet erstmals an den Formen, Bildern und Inschriften der attischen Grabmäler der geometrischen, archaischen und klassischen Epoche (1000-300 v. Chr.) die Athener Haltung dem Tod gegenüber und ihren Wandel in diesen drei Epochen heraus sowieden grundsätzlic…
This title provides an examination of the four funerals in the the Anglo-Saxon poem, Beowulf. The text also explores the elliptical structures of the poem, and establishes their thematic and structural importance.
Introduction -- Death in pre-Hispanic Peru -- Death during the conquest -- The conquest of death -- Spaces and institutions for the missionary project -- Wills, graves, and funeral rites -- Ancestors, successors, and memory -- Conclusion.
