Mirrors of Passing: Unlocking the Mysteries of Death, Materiality, and Time - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785338943 ISBN 13: 9781785338946

Publisher: Berghahn Books, 2018

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Authors

Sophie Seebach holds a doctorate from Aarhus University. Her recent publications include pieces in the edited collection Mortuary Rites, Memory, and Authority/Agency: The Anthropology of Death in the Early Twenty-First Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and, with Lotte Meinert and Rane Willerslev, in the journal Africa.

Rane Willerslev holds a doctorate from the University of Cambridge. His numerous books and publications include On the Run in Siberia (University of Minnesota Press, 2012), Taming Time, Timing Death: Social Technologies and Ritual (edited with Dorthe R. Christensen, Ashgate, 2013), and Transcultural Montage (edited with Christian Suhr, Berghahn, 2013).

Edition details

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1785338943
• ISBN 13: 9781785338946
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 326
• Editor: Seebach Sophie, Willerslev Rane