Life & Afterlife in Benin
Author: Okwui Enwezor
Publisher: Phaidon
Published: 2005-07-06
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new chapter in the history of African and world photography.
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Royal Art of Benin
Author: Kate Ezra
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 0870996339
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTantalizing trivia. this Hitler, spoiling everything?"
Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist
Author: Grzegorz Rossolinski
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2014-10-01
Total Pages: 655
ISBN-13: 3838266846
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Political Lives of Dead Bodies
Author: Katherine Verdery
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1999-04-07
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780231500432
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince 1989, scores of bodies across Eastern Europe have been exhumed and brought to rest in new gravesites. Katherine Verdery investigates why certain corpses—the bodies of revolutionary leaders, heroes, artists, and other luminaries, as well as more humble folk—have taken on a political life in the turbulent times following the end of Communist Party rule, and what roles they play in revising the past and reorienting the present. Enlivening and invigorating the dialogue on postsocialist politics, this imaginative study helps us understand the dynamic and deeply symbolic nature of politics—and how it can breathe new life into old bones.
African Religions
Author: Jacob K. Olupona
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 0199790582
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book connects traditional religions to the thriving religious activity in Africa today.
Journey Through the Afterlife
Author: John H. Taylor
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780674057500
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith contributions from leading scholars and detailed catalog entries that interpret the spells and painted scenes, this fascinating and important work affords a greater understanding of ancient Egyptian belief systems and poignantly reveals the hopes and fears about the world beyond death.
Death in the Early Twenty-first Century
Author: Sébastien Penmellen Boret
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-07-18
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 3319523651
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on tradition, technology, and authority, this volume challenges classical understandings that mortuary rites are inherently conservative. The contributors examine innovative and enduring ideas and practices of death, which reflect and constitute changing patterns of social relationships, memorialisation, and the afterlife. This cross-cultural study examines the lived experiences of men and women from societies across the globe with diverse religious heritages and secular value systems. The book demonstrates that mortuary practices are not fixed forms, but rather dynamic processes negotiated by the dying, the bereaved, funeral experts, and public institutions. In addition to offering a new theoretical perspective on the anthropology of death, this work provides a rich resource for readers interested in human responses to mortality: the one certainty of human existence.
Life-- Afterlife
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConsists of 7 informational activity sheets for elementary level students.
The Last Pilgrimage to Eternity
Author: Cyril L. Caspar
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Published: 2018-03-31
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 3839442540
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the advent of the reformation, concepts of living and dying were profoundly reconfigured. As purgatory disappeared from the spiritual landscape, other paths to the afterlife were rediscovered. Thus, when life draws to a close, the passage to the afterlife becomes a last pilgrimage, a popular early modern metaphor that has received little critical commentary. In a rigorous historical and theological reading, Cyril L. Caspar explores five major English poets - John Donne, Sir Walter Raleigh, George Herbert, Edmund Spenser, and John Milton - to unveil the poetical potential of the last pilgrimage as a life-transcending metaphor.
The Death of Socrates
Author: Emily R. Wilson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780674026834
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSocrates's death in 399 BCE has figured largely in our world, shaping how we think about heroism and celebrity, religion and family life, state control and individual freedom--many of the key coordinates of Western culture. Wilson analyzes the enormous and enduring power the trial and death of Socrates has exerted over the Western imagination.
