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The Place of the Dead : Death and Rememberance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Bruce Gordon
Paperback - $86.95
Although much has been published on the social history of death, this is the first book to give a comprehensive account of attitudes toward the dead--above all the "placing" of the dead, in physical, spiritual and social terms--in order to reveal the ...
Masonic Burial Service
Grand Lodge of Massachusetts
Paperback - $32.95
Lodge service, Chaplain's prayer; Graveside service; Invocation; Depositing the apron, evergreen, Charge to the Brethren; Benediction.
Undying Faces : A Collection of Death Masks
Margaret M. Green
Paperback - $50.95
This book is a translation from the German edition of Das Ewige Antlitz. Death masks command our utmost reverence, for the face is symbolic and perpetuates the final impression of a human spirit whom we once knew, or who had made his mark on all men' ...
Death, Memory and Material Culture
Elizabeth Hallam
Paperback - $70.95
- How do the living maintain ongoing relationships with the dead in Western societies?
- How have the residual belongings of the dead been used to evoke memories?
- Why has the body and its material environment remained so important in memory ...
The Dominion of the Dead
Robert Pogue Harrison
Hardcover - $49.95
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, e ...
The Dominion of the Dead
Robert Pogue Harrison
Paperback - $23.95
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, e ...
What Happens When You Die : From Your Last Breath to the First Spadeful
Robert T. Hatch
Paperback - $32.95
This intriguing glimpse into the once mysterious aspects of death tells what happens-- step-by-step-- during the embalming and cremation processes.
Here you will find information once known only to funeral directors, including:
What happens to ...
Symbolic Loss (P)
Peter Homans
Paperback - $49.95
Historically, many world cultures have linked three disparate phenomena: collective loss; mourning; and the construction of monuments and cultural symbols to represent the loss over time and render it memorable, meaningful, and thereby bearable. In a ...