The Burial of the Dead (Routledge Revivals) - Hardcover

Basevi, W. H. F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1032349336 ISBN 13: 9781032349336

Publisher: Routledge, 2022

Synopsis

First published in 1920, The Burial of the Dead emerged from the idea that the primitive man did not imagine graves as receptacles for the dead, but refuges for the living. The book is an anthropological and a philosophical quest to understand when and how the custom of burial came about within primitive society. The book does not limit itself to the customs and traditions of burial, but also engages with the concepts of death, life, and afterlife as conceived by the primitive man. In doing so, the author traces a continuity between the strength of beliefs in a primitive society and in a modern one, as well as the development of those beliefs into universal principles. This book will be of interest to anyone trying to unravel the mystery of death and especially to students of anthropology, history, philosophy and religion.

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W. H. F. Basevi

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032349336
• ISBN 13: 9781032349336
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 220