The dominion of the dead

The dominion of the dead

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Harrison, Robert Pogue (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press 2003.
Edición:1st ed
Materias:
Death > Psychological aspects.
Death > Social aspects.
funeral, rite, ritual, mourning, after death, graves, literature, visual culture, photography, architecture, monuments, afterlife, dead, grief, burial, tombs, empty tomb, resurrection, vietnam veterans memorial, gospels, religion, spirituality, folklore, folk belief, rilke, heidegger, nietzsche, pater, dante, virgil, vico, mortality, loss, psychology, nonfiction, ancestors, legacy, generations, communion.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798328806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The earth and its dead
  • Hic jacet
  • What is a house?
  • The voice of grief
  • The origin of our basic words
  • Choosing your ancestor
  • Hic non est
  • The names of the dead
  • The afterlife of the image.

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