TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kaliff,Anders
AU  - Oestigaard,Terje
TI  - Cremation, Corpses and Cannibalism: Comparative Cosmologies and Centuries of Cosmic Consumption
SN  - 9781443891806
AV  - GT3170 .K35 2017
U1  - 936.8 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - [Place of publication not identified]
PB  - Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge Scholars Publishing
KW  - Cremation
KW  - History
KW  - Cannibalism
KW  - Funeral rites and ceremonies
KW  - Crémation
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Cannibalisme
KW  - Funérailles
KW  - Rites et cérémonies
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Ancient
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Authors; Notes; Bibliography; Index
N2  - Death matters and the matters of death are initially, and to a large extent, the decaying flesh of the corpse. Cremation as a ritual practice is the fastest and most optimal way of dissolving the corpse's flesh, either by annihilation or purification, or a combination. Still, cremation was not the final rite, and the archaeological record testifies that the dead represented a means to other ends - the flesh, and not the least the bones - have been incorporated in a wide range of other ritual contexts. While human sacrifices and cannibalism as ritual phenomena are much discussed in anthropology
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