Mirrors of Passing

Mirrors of Passing
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 306
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ISBN-10 : 9781785338953
ISBN-13 : 1785338951
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Book Synopsis Mirrors of Passing by : Sophie Seebach

Download or read book Mirrors of Passing written by Sophie Seebach and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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