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.)

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.

Table of Contents

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