Presents the results of an extensive re-examination of Orkney Bronze Age barrows, their chronological development and the changing nature of mortuary and burial practices. Provides the exciting results of a long-term project examining Bron...Daugiau...
A funeral speech was delivered almost every year in classical Athens. Forty years ago, Loraux showed how important it was for maintaining Athenian self-identity. But her famous book left many questions unanswered. In answering them, this volume puts...Daugiau...
Discover the worlds most fascinating death and funeral traditions in this illustrated modern-day memento mori.Embark on a whirlwind tour of burial, preservation, and memorial practices and landmarks from across the globe and throughou...Daugiau...
Across the globe, memorial and grave sites are being increasingly weaponized in conflicts and politicized by parties to advance agendas. Here, Carol S. Lilly examines ideas of death, politics, memory, ideology and nationalism in the former Yugosla...Daugiau...
Ancient Egyptians imagined the afterlife as a kind of journey you had to make to get to paradise but it was quite a hazardous journey so you would need help along the way. So spells and magic formulas written on papyrus were placed in coffins an...Daugiau...
This book explores the role of textiles in death to investigate questions into how the body was prepared before the funeral, how the body was seen and perceived by its relatives and community, and the role of textiles in its metamorphosis into a d...Daugiau...
To date, mourning has not featured prominently in studies of Roman death and this book redresses that fact by presenting a comprehensive analysis of who mourners were and what mourners did, as well as addressing the social, cultural and ritual signi...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 08-Jul-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252046629)
An important presence through centuries of musical and social change, gamelan angklung is a small, four-tone bronze-keyed ensemble that remains ubiquitous at cremations in Bali. Ellen Koskoff offers a compelling portrait of these little-studied orche...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 08-Jul-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252088735)
An important presence through centuries of musical and social change, gamelan angklung is a small, four-tone bronze-keyed ensemble that remains ubiquitous at cremations in Bali. Ellen Koskoff offers a compelling portrait of these little-studied orch...Daugiau...
An honest, irreverent, laugh-out-loud guide to coping with death and dying from Emmy-nominated writer and New York Times bestselling co-author of Sh*tty Mom Laurie Kilmartin.Death is not for the faint of heart, and someti...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 03-Jun-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Liverpool University Press, ISBN-13: 9781802077582)
A book about perception and imagination of death, dying and the beyond in ancient cultures from Mesopotamia and Egypt to Rome and even the Incas. The collected studies explore apotropaic or celebratory rituals of death, the imagined processes of dyi...Daugiau...
Exploring psychedelic spiritual practices and afterlife beliefs among the Mississippi mound cultures. Examines the Path of Souls or Trail of Ghosts, a Native American model for the after-death journey. Demonstrates how psychoactive plants were used...Daugiau...
This book provides a shortform definitive reference text on the landscape and features of Aotearoa New Zealand that underpin its familiar, though country specific, ways of caring for the dead. It provides an account of diverse funerary practices t...Daugiau...
