Unburied bodies : : subversive corpses and the authority of the dead / / James R. Martel.

The human body is the locus of meaning, personhood, and our sense of the possibility of sanctity. The desecration of the human corpse is a matter of universal revulsion, taboo in virtually all human cultures. Not least for this reason, the unburied corpse quickly becomes a focal point of political...

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Place / Publishing House:Amherst, Massachusetts : : Amherst College Press,, [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Public works (Amherst, Mass.)
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