Books of Burial
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As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text
By William FaulknerThe story revolves around a grim yet darkly humorous pilgrimage, as Addie Bundren's family sets out to fulfill her last wish: to be buried in her native Jefferson, Mississippi, far from the miserable backwater surroundings of her married ...
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These Exalted Acres: Unlocking the Secrets of Albany Rural Cemetery
By Paul GrondahlPalmer: (1817-1904). Brevet Maj. Charles E. Pease (1838-1886) C Civil War commander,. moved beyond cameos and traveled frequently to New York City, where he mounted a major show of 12 sculptures for the National Academy of Art in 1856.
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Ancient Egypt: A Very Peculiar History : the Art of Embalming : Mummy, Myth and Magic : with Added Mushy...
By Jim PipeYou can't take it with you - or can you?
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Sancti Stones: Parish Memorials of Wiveliscombe, Somerset : a Millennium Survey of Surviving Inscriptions in the Churches and Churchyards of...
By Susan Maria FarringtonSancti Stones: Parish Memorials of Wiveliscombe, Somerset : a Millennium Survey of Surviving Inscriptions in the Churches and Churchyards of...
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The Victorian Celebration of Death: the Architect-ure and Planning of the 19th Century Necropolis
By James Stevens CurlThe Victorian Celebration of Death: the Architect-ure and Planning of the 19th Century Necropolis
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Burying S. M. Otieno: The Politics of Knowledge & the Sociology of Power in Africa
By David William CohenBurying S. M. Otieno: The Politics of Knowledge & the Sociology of Power in Africa
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Chesed Shel Emet: The Truest Act of Kindness
By Stuart L. Kelman"Jewish ritual for preparing the body for burial"--Cover.
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One Foot in the Grave: The Strange But True Adventures of a Cemetery Sexton
By Chad DaybellThe kinematic dynamo theory, especially the fast dynamo treated in this volume, is somewhat simpler but still it presents formidable analytical problems related to chaotic dynamics, for example.
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As I Lay Dying: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism
By William Faulkner, Theorists"This Norton Critical Edition of As I Lay Dying, second edition, features William Faulkner's experimental Southern novel with editorial annotations.
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Monuments on the Horizon: The Formation of the Barrow Landscape Throughout the 3rd and 2nd Millennium BC
By Quentin BourgeoisWhile the majority of the barrows were only visible from relatively close by, specific monuments took up a dominating position, cresting the horizon, and they were visible from much further away.
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Breaking and Making Bodies and Pots: Material and Ritual Practices in Sweden in the Third Millennium BC
By Åsa M. Larsson"In South Sweden the third millennium BC is characterised by coastal settlements of marine hunter-gatherers known as the Pitted Ware culture, and inland settlements of the Battle Axe culture.
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Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear
By Jan BondesonSpeculating that one out of a hundred people were buried alive a century ago, this fascinating book uses folklore, history, and literature to explore the nineteenth-century fears associated with this disturbing fact. Reprint.
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Bury the Dead: Tombs, Corpses, Mummies, Skeletons & Rituals
By Christopher SloanExamines the customs and practices related to burial that have existed from ancient times to the present.
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Public Uses of Human Remains and Relics in History
By Taylor & Francis GroupThis volume intends to reconstruct the complexity of the cult and symbols they have generated and the uses assigned to them in Italy in different historical periods.
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Death As a Process: The Archaeology of the Roman Funeral
By John Pearce, Jake WeekesWide ranging exploration of how archaeological evidence for death and burial in the Roman world can illustrate process and ritual sequence, from laying out the dead to the pyre and tomb, and from placing the dead in the earth to the return ...
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Transformation Through Destruction: A Monumental and Extraordinary Early Iron Age Hallstatt C Barrow from the Ritual Landscape of Oss-Zevenbergen
By Sasja Vaart, Richard Jansen, David R. FontijnThe objects had been dismantled and taken apart, all to be destroyed by fire in what appears to have been a pars pro toto burial. In essence, a person and a place were being transformed through destruction.
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A Guide to Natural Burial
By Ken WestUseful for all involved with natural burial and funerals generally and those considering a green funeral, this book defines natural burial, explores the social, economic and environmental issues concerning this option and its alternatives, ...
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Greening Death: Reclaiming Burial Practices and Restoring Our Tie to the Earth
By Suzanne KellyGreening Death explores this awakening, arguing that beyond the greener and more cost-efficient practices of the Green Burial Movement lies an even greater promise--tying us back to the earth.
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Going Into Darkness: Fantastic Coffins from Africa
By Thierry SecretanPhotographer and reporter Thierry Secretan's superb color photographs record a wide variety of these sculptural masterpieces.
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Being with the Dead: Burial, Ancestral Politics, and the Roots of Historical Consciousness
By Hans RuinPhilosophy, Socrates declared, is the art of dying. This book underscores that it is also the art of learning to live and share the earth with those who have come before us.