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Taming Time, Timing Death - Social Technologies and Ritual (Paperback)
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Taming Time, Timing Death - Social Technologies and Ritual (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Death, Materiality and the Origin of Time
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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 manner in which social technologies and rituals
have been and are implemented to avoid, delay or embrace death, or
communicate with the dead, thus informing and manifesting humans'
understanding of time. It will therefore be of interest to scholars
and students of anthropology, philosophy, sociology and social
theory, human geography and religion.
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