The Burial of the Dead
eBook - ePub

The Burial of the Dead

  1. 216 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Burial of the Dead

About this book

First published in 1920, The Burial of the Dead emerged from the idea that the primitive man did not imagine graves as receptacles for the dead, but refuges for the living. The book is an anthropological and a philosophical quest to understand when and how the custom of burial came about within primitive society. The book does not limit itself to the customs and traditions of burial, but also engages with the concepts of death, life, and afterlife as conceived by the primitive man. In doing so, the author traces a continuity between the strength of beliefs in a primitive society and in a modern one, as well as the development of those beliefs into universal principles. This book will be of interest to anyone trying to unravel the mystery of death and especially to students of anthropology, history, philosophy and religion.

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Information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781032349336
eBook ISBN
9781000686715
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Original Title
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Introduction
  9. I. The Cave of Aurignac
  10. II. The Journey of the Dead
  11. III. Funeral Offerings
  12. IV. Orientation of Graves
  13. V. The Land of the Dead
  14. VI. Lost Atlantis
  15. VII. Underground Regions of the Dead
  16. VIII. Dwellings and Graves
  17. IX. The Breton Land of the Dead
  18. X. Change and Forgetting
  19. XI. The Life of the Dead
  20. XII. Funeral Offerings
  21. XIII. Ghosts
  22. XIV. Ancestor Worship
  23. XV. Concurrent Methods of Burial
  24. XVI. Tree Burial
  25. XVII. Mourning
  26. XVIII. Relics of Voluntary Outlawry
  27. XIX. Prisons
  28. XX. Conclusion