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基本信息·出版社：The Lyons Press
·页码：192 页
·出版日期：2007年10月
·ISBN：1599212013
·International Standard Book Number：1599212013
·条形码：9781599212012
·EAN：9781599212012
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
内容简介 In the bestselling tradition of "Stiff," this book expands on the subject of death, traveling across continents and centuries to reveal how distinctively various cultures react to the human's final act. From the medieval French funerals of kings and the Sudanese Danka burying alive its "masters of the spear" to the great Berawan tombs of Borneo and the catacombs of Paris, Kerrigan shares fascinating details of death that are as revealing as details of the living. A rich and comprehensive history of the world, with photos and illustrations throughout, from a wonderful storyteller. Michael Kerrigan is a London historian who writes for the "Times" and the "Scotsman," and is currently editing the "Reader's Digest Illustrated History of the World."
作者简介 Michael Kerrigan has written widely on both ancient and modern history.
He writes regularly for the
Scotsman, Edinburgh, and the
Times Literary Supplement, London, and is currently co-editing the
Illustrated History of the World for Reader’s Digest.
专业书评 From the Back CoverDeath may be universal, but just as every culture has found ways of living life differently, each has also found different and sometimes extraordinary ways to deal with dying and the effects that it has on the people left behind. This wide-ranging book examines the compelling subject of death and burial in varied cultures, societies, and ages. It considers the rituals surrounding death, from the drama of medieval French royal funerals to the live burials of the Dinka in the Sudan, and from facing death, with the 5,000 strong terra-cotta army, as the first Chinese emperor Shihuangdi did in 260 B.C., to the elaborate mausolea of wealthy Victorians. Covering all periods in history and religions,
The History of Death also examines the differing approaches to funerals, whether solemn, celebratory, drunken or even sexually promiscuous. It illuminates the combination between the earthly and spiritual in furneral rites, the practices of human sacrifice and ritual killing, as well as the processes of grieving, burial, cremation, remembrance, and the differing concepts of life after death.
