Mirrors of Passing : : Unlocking the Mysteries of Death, Materiality, and Time / / ed. by Sophie Seebach, Rane Willerslev.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Ammann, Theresa,; Ditlef Fredriksen, Per,; Falck, Christiane,; Lehrmann, Malthe,; Lykkegård, Jeanette,; Martins Lima, Clarissa,; Matland, Susan,; McLean, Stuart,; Nyord, Rune,; O’Neill, Sean,; Prusac-Lindhagen, Marina,; Refslund Christensen, Dorthe,; Sandvik, Kjetil,; Schüssler, Alexandra,; Seebach, Sophie,; Sumiala, Johanna,; Vander Velden, Felipe,; Walsh, Matthew J.,; Willerslev, Rane,
• HerausgeberIn: Seebach, Sophie,; Willerslev, Rane,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (326 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Introduction. Mirrors of Passing --; Part I. Death’s Time --; Chapter 1. The Time of the Dead: Anthropology, Literature, and the Virtual Past --; Chapter 2. Orpheus in Love, Death, and Time --; Chapter 3. Death before Time: Mythical Time in Ancient Egyptian Mortuary Religion --; Chapter 4. When Bad Places Turn Worse: The Necropolitics of Death Sites in Northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa --; Chapter 5. Narratives of Ebola: Temporal and Material Changes of Social Riverscapes --; Part II. Materialities of Death --; Chapter 6. “Saving the Dead”: Fighting for Life in the Siberian North --; Chapter 7. Death, Rebirth, Objects, and Time in North American Traditional Inuit Societies: An Overview --; Chapter 8. Transforming and Creating Multiple Worlds: Strange Attractors in the Mongolian Landscape --; Chapter 9. The Dead among the Living: Materiality and Time in Rethinking Death and Otherness in Lowland South America --; Part III. Life after Death --; Chapter 10. Making Presence: Time Work and Narratives in Bereaved Parents’ Online Grief Work --; Chapter 11. The Multiple Identities of Aslak Hætta and Mons Somby: The Case of the Sámi Skulls --; Chapter 12. Media, Ritual, and Immortality: The Case of a Masculine Hero --; Chapter 13. The Temporality and Materiality of Life and Death in a Sepik Village --; Part IV. Exhibiting Death, Materiality, and Time --; Chapter 14. The Wonderful Exhibition That Almost Was --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785338953; 9783110998115
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785338953?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Sophie Seebach, Rane Willerslev.

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.