A brief history of death / W.M. Spellman.
As humans, death-its certainty, its inevitability-consumes us. We make it the subject of our literature, our art, our philosophy, and our religion. Our feelings and attitudes toward our mortality and its possible afterlives have evolved greatly from the early days of mankind. Collecting these views...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Reaktion Books,
2014.
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| Summary: | As humans, death-its certainty, its inevitability-consumes us. We make it the subject of our literature, our art, our philosophy, and our religion. Our feelings and attitudes toward our mortality and its possible afterlives have evolved greatly from the early days of mankind. Collecting these views in this topical and instructive book, W.M. Spellman considers death and dying from every angle in the Western tradition, exploring how humans understand and come to terms with the end of life. Using the work of archaeologists and paleoanthropologists, Spellman examines how interpreting. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (253 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-247) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781780233055 1780233051 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |