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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• 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
• Seebach, Sophie[Herausgeber]
• Sumiala, Johanna
• Vander Velden, Felipe
• Walsh, Matthew J
• Willerslev, Rane
• Willerslev, Rane[Herausgeber]

Titel

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

Ort / Verlag

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books

Erscheinungsjahr

[2018]

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

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• 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