The buried soul : how humans invented death / Timothy Taylor.
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Taylor, Timothy (författare)
- ISBN 0807046728
- Publicerad: Boston : Beacon Press, [2004]
- Engelska x, 353 pages
- Relaterad länk:
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http://catdir.loc.go... (Publisher description)
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http://hdl.library.u... (The George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund Home Page)
Innehållsförteckning
Sammanfattning
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Stäng
- Introduction : sentiments and chronologies -- Ascending underground -- A skeleton illuminated by lightning -- The edible dead -- The foreign witness -- Welcome to weirdworld -- Vexed ghosts -- Annihilation -- Beyond the Pavlov Hills -- An unexpected vampire -- The singing bone -- Conclusion : visceral insulation.
- "Do cannibals exist? It there evidence for contemporary human sacrifice? What are vampires? The Buried Soul charts the story of the human response to death from prehistory to the present day. At some moment in human history, our ancestors invented "death." Retracing four million years, this book investigates the many ways that humans, in facing death, first understood what it was to be alive. Their confrontation with mortality survives in early accounts of sacrifices, in blindfolded bodies preserved in peat bogs, and in the elaborate burials of disabled or deformed individuals among Neanderthals and the people of the Ice Age." "Timothy Taylor has spent his life sifting through the relics of encounters with death. In The Buried Soul he gathers evidence of how the ancients saw their universe and asks how we came to have not only a sense of the afterlife but also an image of the soul."--Jacket.
Ämnesord
- Mänskliga kvarlevor (sao)
- Människooffer (sao)
- Utgrävningar (sao)
- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient. (LCSH)
- Burial. (LCSH)
- Human remains (Archaeology) (LCSH)
- Excavations (Archaeology) (LCSH)
- Funeral rites and ceremonies -- History. (LCSH)
- Human sacrifice -- Comparative studies. (LCSH)
- Death -- Social aspects. (LCSH)
- Sépulture. (Vedettes-matière)
- Restes humains (Archéologie) (Vedettes-matière)
- Fouilles (Archéologie) (Vedettes-matière)
- Funérailles -- Rites et cérémonies -- Histoire. (Vedettes-matière)
- Funérailles -- Rites et cérémonies -- Histoire -- Jusqu'à 500. (Vedettes-matière)
- Sacrifices humains -- Études comparatives. (Vedettes-matière)
- Mort -- Aspect social. (Vedettes-matière)
- Burial. (fast)
- Excavations (Archaeology) (fast)
- Funeral rites and ceremonies. (fast)
- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient. (fast)
- Human remains (Archaeology) (fast)
- Human sacrifice. (fast)
- Burial. (sears)
- Human remains (Archaeology) (sears)
- Excavations (Archaeology) (sears)
- Death -- Social aspects. (fast)
- Funeral rites and ceremonies -- History. (sears)
- Sacrifice -- Comparative studies. (sears)
- Death -- Social aspects. (sears)
- Begravningsseder -- historia (sao)
- Döden -- sociala aspekter (sao)
- Human remains (Archaeology) (LCSH)
- Excavations (Archaeology) (LCSH)
- Human sacrifice (LCSH)
Genre
- Comparative studies. (fast)
- History. (fast)
- Comparative studies.
Klassifikation
- GT3150 (LCC)
- 393 (DDC)
- Mza (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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