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...
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...
From the ritual object which functions as a substitute for the dead - thus acting as a medium for communicating with the other world - to the representation of death, violence and suffering in media, or the use of online social networks as spaces of commemoration, media of various kinds are central to the communication and performance of death-related socio-cultural practices of individuals, groups and societies. This second volume of the Studies in Death, Materiality and Time series explores the ways in which such practices are subject to re-mediation; that is to say, processes by which...
From the ritual object which functions as a substitute for the dead - thus acting as a medium for communicating with the other world - to the represen...
