Cremation, Corpses and Cannibalism: Comparative Cosmologies and Centuries of Cosmic Consumption.

By:

Kaliff, Anders

Contributor(s):

Oestigaard, Terje

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Cambridge Scholars Publishing : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781443891806
1443891800

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cremation, Corpses and Cannibalism: Comparative Cosmologies and Centuries of Cosmic Consumption.DDC classification:

936.8 23

LOC classification:

GT3170 .K35 2017

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Contents:

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

Summary: 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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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.

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

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