Without exception, all people are faced with the inevitability of death, a stark fact that has immeasurably shaped societies and individual consciousness for the whole of human history. Mirrors of Passing offers a powerful window into this oldest of human preoccupations by investigating the interrelationships of death, materiality, and temporality across far-flung times and places. Stretching as far back as Ancient Egypt and Greece and moving through present-day locales as diverse as Western Europe, Central Asia, and the Arctic, each of the richly illustrated essays collected here draw on a…mehr
Without exception, all people are faced with the inevitability of death, a stark fact that has immeasurably shaped societies and individual consciousness for the whole of human history. Mirrors of Passing offers a powerful window into this oldest of human preoccupations by investigating the interrelationships of death, materiality, and temporality across far-flung times and places. Stretching as far back as Ancient Egypt and Greece and moving through present-day locales as diverse as Western Europe, Central Asia, and the Arctic, each of the richly illustrated essays collected here draw on a range of disciplinary insights to explore some of the most fundamental, universal questions that confront us.
Sophie Seebach holds a doctorate from Aarhus University. Her recent publications include pieces in the edited collection Mortuary Rites, Memory, and Authority/Agency: The Anthropology of Death in the Early Twenty-First Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and, with Lotte Meinert and Rane Willerslev, in the journal Africa.
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List of Illustrations Introduction: Mirrors of Passing Sophie Seebach and Rane Willerslev PART I: DEATH'S TIME Chapter 1. The Time of the Dead: Anthropology, Literature, and the Virtual Past Stuart McLean Chapter 2. Orpheus in Love, Death, and Time Marina Prusac-Lindhagen Chapter 3. Death before Time: Mythical Time in Ancient Egyptian Mortuary Religion Rune Nyord Chapter 4. When Bad Places Turn Worse: The Necropolitics of Death Sites in Northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Per Detlef Frederiksen Chapter 5. Narratives of Ebola: Temporal and Material Changes of Social Riverscapes Theresa Amman PART II: MATERIALITIES OF DEATH Chapter 6. "Saving the Dead": Fighting for Life in the Siberian North Rane Willerslev and Jeanette Lykkegård Chapter 7. Death, Rebirth, Objects, and Time in North American Traditional Inuit Societies: an Overview Matthew J. Walsh and Sean O'Neill Chapter 8. Transforming and Creating Multiple Worlds: Strange Attractors in the Mongolian landscape Malthe Lehrmann Chapter 9. The Dead among the Living: Materiality and Time in Rethinking Death and Otherness in Lowland South America Clarissa Martins Lima and Felipe Vander Velden PART III: LIFE AFTER DEATH Chapter 10. Making Presence: Time Work and Narratives in Bereaved Parents' Online Grief Work Dorthe Refslund Christensen and Kjetil Sandvik Chapter 11. The Multiple Identities of Aslak Hætta and Mons Somby: The Case of the Sámi Skulls Susan Matland Chapter 12. Media, Ritual, and Immortality: The Case of a Masculine Hero Johanna Sumiala Chapter 13. The Temporality and Materiality of Life and Death in a Sepik Village Christiane Falck PART IV: EXHIBITING DEATH, MATERIALITY, AND TIME Chapter 14. The Wonderful Exhibition That Almost Was Alexandra Schuessler Index
List of Illustrations Introduction: Mirrors of Passing Sophie Seebach and Rane Willerslev PART I: DEATH'S TIME Chapter 1. The Time of the Dead: Anthropology, Literature, and the Virtual Past Stuart McLean Chapter 2. Orpheus in Love, Death, and Time Marina Prusac-Lindhagen Chapter 3. Death before Time: Mythical Time in Ancient Egyptian Mortuary Religion Rune Nyord Chapter 4. When Bad Places Turn Worse: The Necropolitics of Death Sites in Northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Per Detlef Frederiksen Chapter 5. Narratives of Ebola: Temporal and Material Changes of Social Riverscapes Theresa Amman PART II: MATERIALITIES OF DEATH Chapter 6. "Saving the Dead": Fighting for Life in the Siberian North Rane Willerslev and Jeanette Lykkegård Chapter 7. Death, Rebirth, Objects, and Time in North American Traditional Inuit Societies: an Overview Matthew J. Walsh and Sean O'Neill Chapter 8. Transforming and Creating Multiple Worlds: Strange Attractors in the Mongolian landscape Malthe Lehrmann Chapter 9. The Dead among the Living: Materiality and Time in Rethinking Death and Otherness in Lowland South America Clarissa Martins Lima and Felipe Vander Velden PART III: LIFE AFTER DEATH Chapter 10. Making Presence: Time Work and Narratives in Bereaved Parents' Online Grief Work Dorthe Refslund Christensen and Kjetil Sandvik Chapter 11. The Multiple Identities of Aslak Hætta and Mons Somby: The Case of the Sámi Skulls Susan Matland Chapter 12. Media, Ritual, and Immortality: The Case of a Masculine Hero Johanna Sumiala Chapter 13. The Temporality and Materiality of Life and Death in a Sepik Village Christiane Falck PART IV: EXHIBITING DEATH, MATERIALITY, AND TIME Chapter 14. The Wonderful Exhibition That Almost Was Alexandra Schuessler Index
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