Mirrors of Passing

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  • Mirrors of Passing Book Detail

  • Author : Sophie Seebach
  • Release Date : 2018-08-01
  • Publisher : Berghahn Books
  • Genre : Social Science
  • Pages : 306
  • ISBN 13 : 1785338951
  • File Size : 1,1 MB

Mirrors of Passing by Sophie Seebach PDF Summary

Book Description: 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.

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