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Attitude to Death --- Folklore --- Mortuary Practice --- history
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Philosophical anthropology --- History of civilization --- Folklore --- Mortuary Practice --- Attitude to Death --- history --- Attitude to Death. --- Folklore. --- 393 --- Folklores --- Attitudes to Death --- Death, Attitude to --- Death, Attitudes to --- Death --- history. --- Dood. Dodengebruiken. Dodenritueel. Lijkverbranding. Begrafenis. Crematie. Rouw. Opbaren. Lijkstoet. Sterven. Dodenmaskers --- ATTITUDE TO DEATH --- MORTUARY PRACTICE --- 393 Dood. Dodengebruiken. Dodenritueel. Lijkverbranding. Begrafenis. Crematie. Rouw. Opbaren. Lijkstoet. Sterven. Dodenmaskers --- Mortuary practice --- History. --- 393 Death. Treatment of corpses. Funerals. Death rites --- Death. Treatment of corpses. Funerals. Death rites --- Fairy Tale --- Folktale --- Fairy Tales --- Folktales --- Mortuary Practice - history --- Attitude to Death - history
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"How human technological interventions into death and the dead body since the nineteenth century have had a profound impact on today's (and future) end-of-life and human mortality realities. As Director of the Centre for Death and Society, the world's only interdisciplinary studies centre dedicated to researching death, dying, and the dead body, and the son of an American Funeral Director who grew up in the funeral industry, I am uniquely positioned to author a new book on the human corpse and technology. Death and the dead body are both extremely popular topics, and the books being currently published are tapping into that popular appeal. Most of these books, however, cover topics that remain perennially discussed. Indeed, it is striking how so many of the current books on death and dying reflect the same issues raised during the 1970's, a decade during which Publisher's Weekly enthusiastically told its readers "Death is now selling books!" A quick snapshot of some current(ish) dea th, dying, and dead body books includes, but is certainly not limited to: Mary Roach's Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, which was published in 2003 but remains widely read thirteen-years later; more recent books, such as Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, Caitlin Doughty's Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, and Brandy Schillace's Death's Summer Coat have all tapped into this popular genre. Books by academic authors such as Margaret Schwartz's Dead Matter and Thomas Laqueur's The Work of the Dead present historical and cultural contexts that are equally important. My listing of texts could exceed several pages but what is important about most contemporary death books is that the texts rarely give the history of publishing books on death much analysis. If any death-topic authors' names appear they are usually Jessica Mitford, Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, and Ernest Becker. Sigmund Freud sometimes appears (in connection to Becker) but on the whole these specific authors represent a fraction of the 'death canon.' What I am writing improves on these texts by presenting readers with a more complex and interesting history than most books on death, dying, and the dead body currently pursue. In a nutshell I present a longer view on how human technological interventions into death and the dead body since the nineteenth century have had a profound impact on today's (and future) end-of-life and human mortality realities. It is too easy to sum up most current books on death, dying, and the dead body by simply saying, "We've been here before" - but it's also accurate. What my book presents are new and important ways to critically understand both the distant and recent past of human death, e.g., nineteenth century postmortem photography's crucial relationship to twentieth century life extension technology. Ironically, these nineteenth century historical records are often archived and accessible (and very well presented in MIT Press's Secure the Shadow by Jay Ruby), whereas web based materi al from twenty, even ten-years-ago often disappears before it can be analyzed and discussed. The key point for any book being written about death and dying today is that it really needs to understand and articulate how popular interest in death didn't emerge from nowhere. The current popularity of death, dying, and the dead body is the result of many individuals working in many different fields over the last two centuries as both academics and practitioners. More than anything the collective twenty-first century discourse on death needs to have its dominant narratives challenged and pushed in new directions. This book takes on that challenge and re-defines death, dying, and the dead body for readers by opening up human mortality's complicated and often vexing history"--
Mortuary Practice --- Technology --- Attitude to Death --- Funeral Rites --- Cadaver --- Thanatology --- history --- Death --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Dead --- History --- Psychological aspects --- Undertakers and undertaking --- History. --- Sociology of health --- Pathological anatomy and histology --- Funeral directors --- Funeral industry --- Morticians --- Mortuary practice --- Death care industry --- Funeral homes
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Attitude to Death. --- Social Conditions --- Folklore. --- Mortuary Practice --- 393 --- #GSDBP --- Folklores --- Attitudes to Death --- Death, Attitude to --- Death, Attitudes to --- Death --- history. --- Dood. Dodengebruiken. Dodenritueel. Lijkverbranding. Begrafenis. Crematie. Rouw. Opbaren. Lijkstoet. Sterven. Dodenmaskers --- ATTITUDE TO DEATH --- Folklore --- MORTUARY PRACTICE --- history --- 393 Dood. Dodengebruiken. Dodenritueel. Lijkverbranding. Begrafenis. Crematie. Rouw. Opbaren. Lijkstoet. Sterven. Dodenmaskers --- Attitude to death --- Mortuary practice --- History. --- #GGSB: Geschiedenis (Middeleeuwen) --- 930.85 --- 930.85 Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis --- Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis --- Attitude to Death --- 393 Death. Treatment of corpses. Funerals. Death rites --- Death. Treatment of corpses. Funerals. Death rites --- Fairy Tale --- Folktale --- Fairy Tales --- Folktales --- Geschiedenis (Middeleeuwen) --- Deuil --- Sociologie de la mort --- Mort --- Histoire. --- Aspect religieux --- Christianisme.
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J4157 --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- customs, folklore and culture -- treatment of the dead and funerals --- Undertakers and undertaking --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Funeral directors --- Funeral industry --- Morticians --- Mortuary practice --- Death care industry --- Funeral homes
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The Analysis of Burned Human Remains, Second Edition, provides a primary source for osteologists and the medical/legal community for the understanding of burned bone remains in forensic or archaeological contexts. It describes in detail the changes in human bone and soft tissues as a body burns at both the chemical and gross levels and provides an overview of the current procedures in burned bone study. Case studies in forensic and archaeological settings aid those interested in the analysis of burned human bodies, from death scene investigators to biological anthropologists.A comprehensive and updated reference for osteologists and the medico-legal community charged with analyzing burned human remains from forensic and archaeological contextsDescribes, in detail, the changes in human bone and soft tissues as a body burnsIdeal title for those researching cremation, osteology, bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, skeletal biology, and taphonomyIncludes case studies in forensics and archaeological settings to aid those interested in the analysis of burned human bodies.
Legal medicine --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Archeology --- Forensic anthropology. --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Forensic Anthropology. --- Burns and scalds --- Burns --- Clinical Laboratory Techniques. --- Forensic Pathology --- Human remains (Archaeology). --- Mortuary Practice. --- Research. --- Pathology. --- Methods.
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Funeral Rites --- Mortuary Practice --- ATTITUDE TO DEATH --- history --- Attitude to Death. --- Attitudes to Death --- Death, Attitude to --- Death, Attitudes to --- Death --- history. --- England. --- Attitude to Death --- Burial --- Comportamento Social --- Dodenbezorging. --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Bestattung. --- British funeral customs, ca 1450-ca 1750 --- History. --- Geschichte 1550-1650. --- England --- Social life and customs. --- Comportamento Social. --- British funeral customs, ca 1450-ca 1750. --- Funeral Rites - history - England --- Mortuary Practice - history - England
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"The Archive of Thotsutmis, son of Panouphis presents for the first time one of the largest collections of Demotic ostraca to have been discovered intact by archaeologists in the twentieth century. Rarely have such deposits been found in situ. Excavated by Ambrose Lansing on behalf of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1915-16 at the site of Deir el-Bahari, the integrity and context of this find are critical to the proper understanding of the texts it contained. Through the publication and analysis of this archive of Demotic and Greek texts recorded on ostraca, Muhs, Scalf, and Jay reconstruct the microhistory of Thotsutmis, son of Panouphis, and his family, who worked in Egypt on the west bank of Thebes as priests in the mortuary industry during the early Ptolemaic Period in the third century BC. The forty-two ostraca published in this volume provide a rare opportunity to explore the intersections between an intact ancient archive of private administrative documents and the larger social and legal contexts into which they fit. What the reconstructed microhistory reveals is an ancient family striving to make it among the wealthy and connected social network of Theban choachytes and pastophoroi, while they simultaneously navigated the bureaucratic maze of taxes, fees, receipts, and legal procedures of the Ptolemaic state"
E-books --- Ostraka --- Undertakers and undertaking --- Funeral directors --- Funeral industry --- Morticians --- Mortuary practice --- Death care industry --- Funeral homes --- History --- Egypt --- Deir el-Bahri Site (Egypt) --- Dair al-Baḥrī Site (Egypt) --- Dayr al-Baḥrī Site (Egypt) --- Deir el-Bahari Site (Egypt) --- Antiquities. --- Antiquities --- Ostraca --- Potsherds (Ostraka) --- Paleography --- Pottery --- Writing materials and instruments --- Astronomy, Egyptian --- Taxation --- Temple of Hatshepsut (Egypt) --- Inscriptions, Egyptian --- Excavations (Archaeology)
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