Of Relations And The Dead

Author : Cecile Barraud
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000323331
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Of Relations and the Dead written by Cecile Barraud and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-13 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exchanges are fundamental to human societies. The authors show that the study of exchanges not only serves as a key to understanding particular societies as totalities but also helps to frame a comparative mode of analysis expressed in terms of a hierarchy of values. Starting with a comparative analysis of the different vocabularies used when dealing with exchange, the authors go on to provide a detailed account of how each society's exchanges form a genuine value-oriented system. Their conclusions shed light on important issues in anthropology such as the difference between subject and object; the construction of the person in the matrix of social relations; and the contrast between 'socio-cosmic' systems and other societies which recognize a universal term of reference beyond their community.

Author : Cecile Barraud
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000325121
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Of Relations and the Dead written by Cecile Barraud and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exchanges are fundamental to human societies. The authors show that the study of exchanges not only serves as a key to understanding particular societies as totalities but also helps to frame a comparative mode of analysis expressed in terms of a hierarchy of values. Starting with a comparative analysis of the different vocabularies used when dealing with exchange, the authors go on to provide a detailed account of how each society's exchanges form a genuine value-oriented system. Their conclusions shed light on important issues in anthropology such as the difference between subject and object; the construction of the person in the matrix of social relations; and the contrast between 'socio-cosmic' systems and other societies which recognize a universal term of reference beyond their community.

Author : Marc Trabsky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351240390
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law and the Dead written by Marc Trabsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The governance of the dead in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries gave rise to a new arrangement of thanato-politics in the West. Legal, medical and bureaucratic institutions developed innovative technologies for managing the dead, maximising their efficacy and exploiting their vitality. Law and the Dead writes a history of their institutional life in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. With a particular focus on the technologies of the death investigation process, including place-making, the forensic gaze, bureaucratic manuals, record-keeping and radiography, this book examines how the dead came to be incorporated into legal institutions in the modern era. Drawing on the writings of philosophers, historians and legal theorists, it offers tools for thinking through how the dead dwell in law, how their lives persist through the conduct of office, and how coroners assume responsibility for taking care of the dead. This historical and interdisciplinary book offers a provocative challenge to conventional thinking about the sequestration of the dead in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It asks the reader to think through and with legal institutions when writing a history of the dead, and to trace the important role assumed by coroners in the governance of the dead. This book will be of interest to scholars working in law, history, sociology and criminology.

Author : Robert Pogue Harrison
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226317927
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dominion of the Dead written by Robert Pogue Harrison and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do the living maintain relations to the dead? Why do we bury people when they die? And what is at stake when we do? In The Dominion of the Dead, Robert Pogue Harrison considers the supreme importance of these questions to Western civilization, exploring the many places where the dead cohabit the world of the living—the graves, images, literature, architecture, and monuments that house the dead in their afterlife among us. This elegantly conceived work devotes particular attention to the practice of burial. Harrison contends that we bury our dead to humanize the lands where we build our present and imagine our future. As long as the dead are interred in graves and tombs, they never truly depart from this world, but remain, if only symbolically, among the living. Spanning a broad range of examples, from the graves of our first human ancestors to the empty tomb of the Gospels to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Harrison also considers the authority of predecessors in both modern and premodern societies. Through inspired readings of major writers and thinkers such as Vico, Virgil, Dante, Pater, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Rilke, he argues that the buried dead form an essential foundation where future generations can retrieve their past, while burial grounds provide an important bedrock where past generations can preserve their legacy for the unborn. The Dominion of the Dead is a profound meditation on how the thought of death shapes the communion of the living. A work of enormous scope, intellect, and imagination, this book will speak to all who have suffered grief and loss.

Author : Cecile Barraud
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Of Relations and the Dead written by Cecile Barraud and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 1994-10-04 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exchanges are fundamental to human societies. The authors show that the study of exchanges not only serves as a key to understanding particular societies as totalities but also helps to frame a comparative mode of analysis expressed in terms of a hierarchy of values. Starting with a comparative analysis of the different vocabularies used when dealing with exchange, the authors go on to provide a detailed account of how each society's exchanges form a genuine value-oriented system. Their conclusions shed light on important issues in anthropology such as the difference between subject and object; the construction of the person in the matrix of social relations; and the contrast between 'socio-cosmic' systems and other societies which recognize a universal term of reference beyond their community.

Author : Piers Vitebsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521384476
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dialogues with the Dead written by Piers Vitebsky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-08-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of religion, healing and psychology in tribal India, examining the bereavement rituals of the Sora people.

Author : Vera Sonja Maass
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442212780
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finding Love That Lasts written by Vera Sonja Maass and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes case histories from patients, volunteers from the general community and participants in personal growth groups offer insight into how to recognize and break negative relationship patterns and how to move forward to healthier and more rewarding relationships.

Author : Erik R. Seeman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812296419
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speaking with the Dead in Early America written by Erik R. Seeman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late medieval Catholicism, mourners employed an array of practices to maintain connection with the deceased—most crucially, the belief in purgatory, a middle place between heaven and hell where souls could be helped by the actions of the living. In the early sixteenth century, the Reformation abolished purgatory, as its leaders did not want attention to the dead diminishing people's devotion to God. But while the Reformation was supposed to end communication between the living and dead, it turns out the result was in fact more complicated than historians have realized. In the three centuries after the Reformation, Protestants imagined continuing relationships with the dead, and the desire for these relations came to form an important—and since neglected—aspect of Protestant belief and practice. In Speaking with the Dead in Early America, historian Erik R. Seeman undertakes a 300-year history of Protestant communication with the dead. Seeman chronicles the story of Protestants' relationships with the deceased from Elizabethan England to puritan New England and then on through the American Enlightenment into the middle of the nineteenth century with the explosion of interest in Spiritualism. He brings together a wide range of sources to uncover the beliefs and practices of both ordinary people, especially women, and religious leaders. This prodigious research reveals how sermons, elegies, and epitaphs portrayed the dead as speaking or being spoken to, how ghost stories and Gothic fiction depicted a permeable boundary between this world and the next, and how parlor songs and funeral hymns encouraged singers to imagine communication with the dead. Speaking with the Dead in Early America thus boldly reinterprets Protestantism as a religion in which the dead played a central role.

Author : Sir James George Frazer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Bough written by Sir James George Frazer and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James George Frazer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Bough written by James George Frazer and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: