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Title The work of the dead : a cultural history of mortal remains / Thomas W. Laqueur.
Author Laqueur, Thomas Walter, author.
Publication Info. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2015]
©2015
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Description xix, 711 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; 25 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Do the dead matter? -- The dead body and the persistence of being -- The cultural work of the dead -- The churchyard and the old regime -- The cemetery and the new regime -- The names of the dead in deep time -- The rise of the names of the dead in modern history -- The age of necronominalism -- The names of the Great War -- Disenchantment and cremation -- Ashes and history -- Afterword : From a history of the dead to a history of dying.
Subject Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Cross-cultural studies.
Death -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.
ISBN 9780691157788 (hardcover) : $39.95
0691157782 (hardcover)
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