Mirrors of Passing: Unlocking the Mysteries of Death, Materiality, and Time
Mort et deuil
Audio avec voix de synthèse, Braille automatisé
Résumé
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