Mirrors of passing unlocking the mysteries of death, materiality, and time / edited by Sophie Seebach and Rane Willerslev.

Other author Seebach, Sophie.
Other author Willerslev, Rane, 1971-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Berghahn, 2018.
Descriptionxii, 294 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
Death--Cross-cultural studies.
Material culture.

Contents 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.
Abstract "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2018015956
ISBN9781785339080 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN9781785338946 (pbk. : alk. paper)