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Beyond death : beliefs, practice, and material expression / edited by Patrick Ryan Williams, Gary M. Feinman, and Luis A. Muro Ynoñán.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Fieldiana. Anthropology ; volume 47.
- BAR international series ; 3104.
- Fieldiana. Anthropology ; volume 47
- BAR international series ; 3104
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Field Museum of Natural History--Exhibitions.
- Field Museum of Natural History.
- Archaeothanatology--Exhibitions.
- Archaeothanatology.
- Future life--Social aspects--Exhibitions.
- Future life.
- Genre:
- exhibition catalogs.
- Exhibition catalogs
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 151 pages) : illustrations (colour), map (colour).
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, UK : BAR Publishing, 2022.
- Language Note:
- Text in English, introduction and abstracts in English and Spanish.
- Summary:
- A wide-ranging treatment on the meaning of death, and its juxtaposition with life, from biological, cultural, and spiritual perspectives. Dozens of case studies accompany the principal essays written by scholars, Indigenous community members, and curators of the exhibition 'Death: Life's Greatest Mystery'.
- Contents:
- The journey from life to death: biology of the human life cycle and our attempt to control it / Robert D. Martin
- Soul and vital force: vibrant life matters and mortuary arts in Africana religions and beyond / Kyrah Malika Daniels
- Performing death / Luis Muro Ynoñán
- Jewish and Christian perspectives on death / William Schweiker
- Social endurance beyond human death / Gary M. Feinman and Patrick Ryan Williams.
- Notes:
- In association with the exhibition Death: Life's greatest mystery.
- "This is an open access work distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)"--Title page verso.
- Also issued in print: 2022.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 18, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version :
- ISBN:
- 9781407360447
- 1407360442
- OCLC:
- 1372564982
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