Mirrors of Passing : : Unlocking the Mysteries of Death, Materiality, and Time /

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

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 interrel...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (326 p.)
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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

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