By Professor Refslund Christensen Dorthe,Professor Willerslev Rane
Departing from a persisting present in Western inspiration, which conceives of time within the summary, and sometimes displays upon dying as occupying an area at life's margins, this ebook starts off from place that it's in reality in the course of the fabric and perishable global that we event time. As such, it truly is with dying and our encounters with it, that shape the root of human conceptions of time.
Presenting wealthy, interdisciplinary empirical reports of dying rituals and practices around the globe, from the U.S. and Europe, Asia, the center East, Australasia and Africa, Taming Time, Timing demise explores the style within which social applied sciences and rituals were and are applied to prevent, hold up or embody demise, or converse with the useless, hence informing and manifesting people' realizing of time. it's going to for that reason be of curiosity to students and scholars of anthropology, philosophy, sociology and social idea, human geography and religion.
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