Mirrors of passing : unlocking the mysteries of death, materiality, and time /: unlocking the mysteries of death, materiality, and time. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Sophie Seebach and Rane Willerslev.
• Editors: Seebach, Sophie; Willerslev, Rane, 1971-
• Contents: The time of the dead : anthropology, literature, and the virtual past / Stuart McLean -- Orpheus in love, death, and time / Marina Prusac-Lindhagen -- Death before time : mythical time in ancient Egyptian mortuary religion / Rune Nyord -- When bad places turn worse : the necropolitics of death sites in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / Per Ditlef Fredriksen -- Narratives of ebola : temporal & material changes of social riverscapes / Theresa Ammann -- "Saving the dead" : fighting for life in the Siberian north / Rane Willerslev & Jeanette Lykkegaard -- Death, rebirth, objects, and time in North American traditional Inuit societies : an overview / Matthew J. Walsh and Sean O'Neill -- Transforming and creating multiple worlds : strange attractors in the Mongolian landscape / Malthe Lehrmann -- The dead among the living : materiality and time in rethinking death and otherness in lowland South America / Clarissa Martins Lima and Felipe Vander Velden -- Making presence : time work and narratives in bereaved parents' online grief work / Dorthe Refslund Christensen and Kjetil Sandvik -- The multiple identities of Aslak Hætta and Mons Somby : the case of the Sami skulls / Susan Matland -- Media, ritual, and immortality : the case of a masculine hero / Johanna Sumiala -- The temporality and materiality of life and death in a Sepik village / Christiane Falck -- The wonderful exhibition that almost was / Alexandra Schössler.
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 306.9; Death -- Cross-cultural studies; Material culture; Death; Material culture; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; Cross-cultural studies; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781785338953; 1785338951
• Related ISBNs: 9781785339080; 1785339087; 9781785338946; 1785338943
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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