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"The History of Death explores the compelling subject of death, burial, and the afterlife in varied cultures, societies, and ages. Examines the various approaches to funerals, from sky burials in Tibet and mummification in Egypt, to being left to rot in the family home in Indonesia. Balances grim facts with intriguing details, such as remarkable burial requests, extravagant funerals, human sacrifice, and ritual killings. Illustrated throughout with photographs and artworks of representations of death and funerary rituals throughout history up to the present day"--Back cover.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
The beginning or the end: ideas of afterlife
Ancient funerary rights
Death and judgment
The ancestors at hand
The demanding dead
Towards modernity, the western tradition
A world of rituals
Death, present and future
Bibliography
Index.
Edition Notes
First published: 2007.
Includes bibliographical references (page 188) and index.
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