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"The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In The Work of the Dead, acclaimed cultural historian Thomas Laqueur examines why humanity has universally rejected Diogenes's argument. No culture has been indifferent to mortal remains. Even in our supposedly disenchanted scientific age, the dead body still matters--for individuals, communities, and nations. A remarkably ambitious history, The Work of the Dead offers a compelling and richly detailed account of how and why the living have cared for the dead, from antiquity to the twentieth century. The book draws on a vast range of sources--from mortuary archaeology, medical tracts, letters, songs, poems, and novels to painting and landscapes in order to recover the work that the dead do for the living: making human communities that connect the past and the future. Laqueur shows how the churchyard became the dominant resting place of the dead during the Middle Ages and why the cemetery largely supplanted it during the modern period. He traces how and why since the nineteenth century we have come to gather the names of the dead on great lists and memorials and why being buried without a name has become so disturbing. And finally, he tells how modern cremation, begun as a fantasy of stripping death of its history, ultimately failed--and how even the ashes of the victims of the Holocaust have been preserved in culture. A fascinating chronicle of how we shape the dead and are in turn shaped by them, this is a landmark work of cultural history. "--

Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Death --- Funérailles --- Mort --- Cross-cultural studies --- Social aspects --- Rites et cérémonies --- Etudes transculturelles --- Aspect social --- Social science --- History --- Death & Dying. --- Anthropology --- Cultural. --- General. --- sociologie --- sociale geschiedenis --- begraafplaatsen --- Funérailles --- Rites et cérémonies --- Cross-cultural studies. --- Philosophical anthropology --- History of civilization

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Masturbation in literature. --- Masturbation --- Sex --- History. --- Religious aspects. --- -Masturbation in literature --- -241.64*31 --- Gender (Sex) --- Human sexuality --- Sex (Gender) --- Sexuality --- Autoeroticism --- Autoerotism --- Onanism --- Theologische ethiek: masturbatie --- 241.64*31 Theologische ethiek: masturbatie --- Masturbation in literature --- 241.64*31 --- Sex (in religion, folklore, etc.) --- Sex and religion --- Phallicism --- History --- Religious aspects --- Art --- Ethics of family. Ethics of sexuality --- Gezinsethiek. Seksuele ethiek --- Cultuurgeschiedenis --- History of civilization --- SEXUALITE --- MASTURBATION --- ASPECTS RELIGIEUX --- HISTOIRE --- DANS L'ART --- DANS LA LITTERATURE

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History of Europe --- History of civilization --- Ethics of family. Ethics of sexuality --- anno 1800-1899 --- Sex --- History --- Miscellanea. --- Social aspects.

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Gender identity --- Sex identity (Gender identity) --- Sexual identity (Gender identity) --- Identity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Queer theory --- Gender dysphoria

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Cet ouvrage vise à faire comprendre pourquoi, quel que soit le contexte religieux et idéologique, et même lorsque la croyance en l'âme est imprécise, le corps sans vie est considéré en tous lieux et à toutes époques comme important. Mobilisant poésie et peinture, architecture et médecine, statuaire et géographie, littérature et théologie, il révèle les manières dont les morts font la civilisation. [Electre]

Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Death --- Social aspects --- Cadavres --- Dead --- Rites et cérémonies funéraires --- Mourning customs --- Mort --- Anthropologie --- Anthropology. --- Études transculturelles --- Cross-cultural studies --- Aspect social --- Social aspects. --- Rites et cérémonies funéraires --- Cimetières --- Monuments aux morts. --- Funérailles --- Études transculturelles. --- Histoire. --- Rites et cérémonies --- Cadavre --- --Anthropologie --- --Rite funéraire --- --Cérémonie funéraire --- --Mort --- --Aspects sociaux --- --Étude transculturelle --- --Social aspects --- Cemeteries --- War memorials --- History --- Etudes transculturelles. --- Anthropologie. --- Études transculturelles. --- Aspect social. --- Cross-cultural studies. --- Funeral rites and ceremonies - Cross-cultural studies --- Death - Social aspects - Cross-cultural studies --- Death - Social aspects --- Rite funéraire --- Cérémonie funéraire --- Aspects sociaux --- Étude transculturelle --- History.