What Remains?: Life, Death, Ritual and the Human Art of Undertaking 1915294126, 9781915294128

Death is not my friend, neither is it my enemy; it is my destiny. "Part memoir, part rant against the traditional

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What Remains?: Life, Death, Ritual and the Human Art of Undertaking
1915294126, 9781915294128

The number of ways in which humans interact with animals is almost incalculable. From beloved household pets to the stea

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How does literature contest capital punishment? The central question of this book, taken over from Derrida’s seminar The

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Sue Black confronts death every day. As Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses on mortal remains in

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Sue Black confronts death every day. As Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses on mortal remains in

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In this transcription of the Medicine Rite, the most sacred ritual of the Winnebago Indians, anthropologist Paul Radin c

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Remains of Ritual, Steven M. Friedson’s second book on musical experience in African ritual, focuses on the Brekete/Goro

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The living and the dead cohabited Paris until the late eighteenth century, when, in the name of public health, measures

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The living and the dead cohabited Paris until the late eighteenth century, when, in the name of public health, measures

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Arguably the most important—and influential—German woman writer of the last century, Christa Wolf was long heralded as &

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This study describes and interprets the graves and human remains of Roman and Byzantine date recovered by excavation bet

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