Taming time, timing death [ social technologies and ritual
Presenting rich, interdisciplinary empirical studies of death rituals and practices across the globe, from the UK and Europe, South and East Asia, The Middle East, Australasia and Africa, Taming Time, Timing Death explores the manner in which social technologies and rituals have been and are impleme...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Surrey, England :
Ashgate ,
c2013
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| Online Access: | http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/iviewer/ASHGATEB0002890/userkey/pc/1/0/read.html |
Table of Contents:
- 1. 'Seaweed and limpets will grow on our gravestones': on islands, death and inhuman materialities
- 2. Death, witchcraft and the temporal aspects of divination
- 3. Time, late modernity and the demise of forever: from eternal salvation to completed bucket lists
- 4. Rebirth and the death drive: rethinking Freud's 'mourning and melancholia' through a Siberian time perspective
- 5. Sharing death: conceptions of time at a Danish online memorial site
- 6. Stones, shamans and pastors: pagan and Baptist temporalities of death in tribal India
- 7. Dealing with dead saints
- 8. Mikkel Bille; Pilgrimage landscape as material anchor of time
- 9. Creating the new times: reburials after war in Northern Uganda
- 10. Memory and succession in the City of the Dead: temporality in the Ancient Egyptian mortuary cult
- 11. Death and meateriality
- 12. Defacing: becoming by killing
- 13. Dying on time: cultures of death and time in Muslim Northern Nigeria