Remains Of The Dead
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The Work Of The Dead
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Author : Thomas W. Laqueur
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2018-05-08
The Work Of The Dead written by Thomas W. Laqueur and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-08 with History categories.
The meaning of our concern for mortal remains—from antiquity through the twentieth century 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.
Remains Of The Dead
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Author : Iain McKinnon
language : en
Publisher: Permuted Press+ORM
Release Date : 2011-10-13
Remains Of The Dead written by Iain McKinnon and has been published by Permuted Press+ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-13 with Fiction categories.
In this post-apocalyptic horror tale, a team of zombie catchers must determine the fate of a band of survivors they find hiding in an urban wasteland. The world is dead, devoured by a plague of reanimated corpses. Cahz and his squad of veteran soldiers are tasked with flying into abandoned cities and retrieving zombies for scientific study. Deep in infected territory, hundreds of miles from their support vessel, the ever-present dangers weigh heavily on Cahz’s mind as he shepherds his team to make quick, clean extractions. Then the unbelievable happens. After years of encountering nothing but the undead, the team discovers a handful of disheveled survivors in a fortified warehouse with dwindling supplies. Surrounded by hordes of ravenous corpses, Cahz is faced with the terrible responsibility of determining the five passengers who will escape in the helicopter. While those left stranded must continue to fight off the infected and starvation long enough to be rescued. Praise for Remains of the Dead “Absolutely superb.” —Joe McKinney, Bram Stoker Award–winning author of Dead City and the Deadlands series “Believable characters trapped in a nightmare scenario—Remains of the Dead is a breathless, high-octane zombie thriller. [McKinnon has] written another great book here.” —David Moody, author of Hater and Dog Blood
Collecting Remains Of The Dead
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language : en
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Respect For The Remains Of The Dead
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Author : Jonathan French Stearns
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1842
Respect For The Remains Of The Dead written by Jonathan French Stearns and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1842 with Oak Hill Cemetery (Newburyport, Mass.) categories.
The Remains Of The Dead
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Author : Wendy Roberts
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2007-12-04
The Remains Of The Dead written by Wendy Roberts and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-04 with Fiction categories.
Sadie Novak’s got the kind of job that kills cocktail chatter dead: she owns Scene-2-Clean, a crime scene cleanup company. As if cleaning up after grusome murders weren't creepy enough, she can also see and talk to the ghosts of the victims. When grieving relatives hire Sadie and her employee, ex-cop Zack Bowman, to clean up after the murder-suicide of Trudy and Grant Toth, Sadie figures she’s bound to meet at least one chatty ghost. But Kent, the man Sadie first encounters at the scene, is very much alive—so much so, that Sadie soon finds herself agreeing to a date with him. Then a real ghost shows up—the oddly silent spirit of Trudy, who seems determined to prove her husband’s innocence, and inspires Sadie to track down the real killer. But as she scours the crime scene, Sadie quickly realizes she's in way over her head, that Kent has a strange connection to the dead couple, and that someone wants her to give up the ghost…for good.
Written In Bones
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Author : Paul G. Bahn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Written In Bones written by Paul G. Bahn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Social Science categories.
A way of life; natural deaths; deliberate deaths; burials; mummies and mummification.
Taphonomy Of Human Remains
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Author : Eline M. J. Schotsmans
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2017-04-17
Taphonomy Of Human Remains written by Eline M. J. Schotsmans and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-17 with Medical categories.
A truly interdisciplinary approach to this core subject within Forensic Science Combines essential theory with practical crime scene work Includes case studies Applicable to all time periods so has relevance for conventional archaeology, prehistory and anthropology Combines points of view from both established practitioners and young researchers to ensure relevance
Grave Disturbances
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Author : Edeltraud Aspöck
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Release Date : 2020-07-31
Grave Disturbances written by Edeltraud Aspöck and has been published by Oxbow Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-31 with Social Science categories.
Archaeologists excavating burials often find that they are not the first to disturb the remains of the dead. Graves from many periods frequently show signs that others have been digging and have moved or taken away parts of the original funerary assemblage. Displaced bones and artefacts, traces of pits, and damage to tombs or coffins can all provide clues about post-burial activities. The last two decades have seen a rapid rise in interest in the study of post-depositional practices in graves, which has now developed into a new subfield within mortuary archaeology. This follows a long tradition of neglect, with disturbed graves previously regarded as interesting only to the degree they revealed evidence of the original funerary deposit. This book explores past human interactions with mortuary deposits, delving into the different ways graves and human remains were approached by people in the past and the reasons that led to such encounters. The primary focus of the volume is on cases of unexpected interference with individual graves soon after burial: re-encounters with human remains not anticipated by those who performed the funerary rites and constructed the tombs. However, a first step is always to distinguish these from natural and accidental processes, and methodological approaches are a major theme of discussion. Interactions with the remains of the dead are explored in eleven chapters ranging from the New Kingdom of Egypt to Viking Age Norway and from Bronze Age Slovakia to the ancient Maya. Each discusses cases of re-entries into graves, including desecration, tomb re-use, destruction of grave contents, as well as the removal of artefacts and human remains for reasons from material gain to commemoration, symbolic appropriation, ancestral rites, political chicanery, and retrieval of relics. The introduction presents many of the methodological issues which recur throughout the contributions, as this is a developing area with new approaches being applied to analyze post-depositional processes in graves.
Written In Bones
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Author : Paul G. Bahn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Written In Bones written by Paul G. Bahn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Burial categories.
The Remains Of The Dead
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Author : Wendy Roberts
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
The Remains Of The Dead written by Wendy Roberts and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with categories.