Mirrors of Passing
Subtitle: Unlocking the Mysteries of Death, Materiality, and Time
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781785339080
Subjects: Death; Material culture
Description: "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"--