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Taming Time, Timing Death: Social Technologies and Ritual (Studies in Death, Materiality and the Origin of Time) - Hardcover
Departing from a persisting current in Western thought, which conceives of time in the abstract, and often reflects upon death as occupying a space at life's margins, this book begins from position that it is in fact through the material and perishable world that we experience time. As such, it is with death and our encounters with it, that form the basis of human conceptions of time. Presenting rich, interdisciplinary empirical studies of death rituals and practices across the globe, from the US and Europe, Asia, The Middle East, Australasia and Africa, Taming Time, Timing Death explores the manner in which social technologies and rituals have been and are implemented to avoid, delay or embrace death, or communicate with the dead, thus informing and manifesting humans' understanding of time. It will therefore be of interest to scholars and students of anthropology, philosophy, sociology and social theory, human geography and religion.
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Dorthe Refslund Christensen is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. Rane Willerslev is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Museum of Cultural History at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is author of Soul Hunters: Hunting, Animism and Personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs and On the Run in Siberia.
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"This stimulating volume materialises the promising future of a book series exclusively dedicated to the study of Death, Materiality and Time that readers will enjoy to follow."― Cristian Simonetti, Mortality: Promoting the interdisciplinary study of death and dying
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1409450686
- ISBN 13 9781409450689
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages286
- EditorWillerslev Rane, Christensen Dorthe Refslund
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