Studies in Death, Materiality and the Origin of Time – serie
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Postmortal Society
Towards a Sociology of Immortality
Häftad, 2018
750 kr
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Throughout history mankind has struggled to reconcile itself with the inescapability of its own mortality. This book explores the themes of immortality and survivalism in contemporary culture, shedding light on the varied and ingenious ways in which humans and human societies aspire to confront and …
Rise of Contemporary Spiritualism
Concepts and controversies in talking to the dead
Av Anne Kalvig
Häftad, 2020
710 kr
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Talking to the dead and communication with 'the other side' is often presented as a taboo in an increasingly technological and medically advanced world. However, practices of spiritualism and mediumship continue to remain popular and in high demand within contemporary Western societies. This book …
Suicide and Agency
Anthropological Perspectives on Self-Destruction, Personhood, and Power
Häftad, 2020
689 kr
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Suicide and Agency offers an original and timely challenge to existing ways of understanding suicide. Through the use of rich and detailed case studies, the authors assembled in this volume explore how interplay of self-harm, suicide, personhood and agency varies markedly across site (Greenland, …
Human Sacrifice and Value
Revisiting the Limits of Sacred Violence from an Anthropological and Archaeological Perspective
Av Matthew J. Walsh, Sean O'Neill m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
2512 kr
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The present volume was made possible by the Norwegian Research Council’s generous funding of the Human Sacrifice and Value project (FRIPROHUMSAM 275947). This volume explores concepts of human sacrifice, focusing on its value – or multiplicity of values – in relative cultural and temporal terms, …
Human Sacrifice and Value
Revisiting the Limits of Sacred Violence from an Anthropological and Archaeological Perspective
Av Matthew J. Walsh, Sean O'Neill m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
648 kr
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The present volume was made possible by the Norwegian Research Council’s generous funding of the Human Sacrifice and Value project (FRIPROHUMSAM 275947). This volume explores concepts of human sacrifice, focusing on its value – or multiplicity of values – in relative cultural and temporal terms, …
Shamanic Crossovers in the Southern Philippines
Vocal Worlds
Av Arne Røkkum
Häftad, 2026
704 kr
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This book offers a close-up study of annual cycle rituals among the southern Tagbanwa of Palawan Island in the Philippines, with a particular focus on shamanic oratory and vocalized performance. Drawing on rich ethnography and extensive fieldwork, it reflects on the interconnectedness of humans, …
Shamanic Crossovers in the Southern Philippines
Vocal Worlds
Av Arne Røkkum
Inbunden, 2025
2504 kr
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This book offers a close-up study of annual cycle rituals among the southern Tagbanwa of Palawan Island in the Philippines, with a particular focus on shamanic oratory and vocalized performance. Drawing on rich ethnography and extensive fieldwork, it reflects on the interconnectedness of humans, …
Taming Time, Timing Death
Social Technologies and Ritual
Av Rane Willerslev, Dorthe Refslund Christensen
Häftad, 2016
849 kr
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Departing from a persisting current in Western thought, which conceives of time in the abstract, and often reflects upon death as occupying a space at life's margins, this book begins from position that it is in fact through the material and perishable world that we experience time. As such, it is …
Materialities of Passing
Explorations in Transformation, Transition and Transience
Av Peter Bjerregaard, Anders Emil Rasmussen m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
747 kr
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‘Passing’ is a common euphemism for the death of a person, as he or she is said to ‘pass away’ or ‘pass on’. This open-ended saying has at its heart a notion of transformation from one state to another, which in turn grants the possibility of grasping or approximating the passage of time and the …
Mediating and Remediating Death
Av Dorthe Refslund Christensen, Kjetil Sandvik
Häftad, 2018
747 kr
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From the ritual object which functions as a substitute for the dead - thus acting as a medium for communicating with the ’other world’ - to the representation of death, violence and suffering in media, or the use of online social networks as spaces of commemoration, media of various kinds are …
Taming Time, Timing Death
Social Technologies and Ritual
Av Rane Willerslev, Dorthe Refslund Christensen
Inbunden, 2013
2736 kr
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Departing from a persisting current in Western thought, which conceives of time in the abstract, and often reflects upon death as occupying a space at life's margins, this book begins from position that it is in fact through the material and perishable world that we experience time. As such, it is …
Mediating and Remediating Death
Av Dorthe Refslund Christensen, Kjetil Sandvik
Inbunden, 2014
2736 kr
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From the ritual object which functions as a substitute for the dead - thus acting as a medium for communicating with the ’other world’ - to the representation of death, violence and suffering in media, or the use of online social networks as spaces of commemoration, media of various kinds are …
Materialities of Passing
Explorations in Transformation, Transition and Transience
Av Peter Bjerregaard, Anders Emil Rasmussen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
2736 kr
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‘Passing’ is a common euphemism for the death of a person, as he or she is said to ‘pass away’ or ‘pass on’. This open-ended saying has at its heart a notion of transformation from one state to another, which in turn grants the possibility of grasping or approximating the passage of time and the …
Suicide and Agency
Anthropological Perspectives on Self-Destruction, Personhood, and Power
Inbunden, 2015
2504 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Suicide and Agency offers an original and timely challenge to existing ways of understanding suicide. Through the use of rich and detailed case studies, the authors assembled in this volume explore how interplay of self-harm, suicide, personhood and agency varies markedly across site (Greenland, …
Rise of Contemporary Spiritualism
Concepts and controversies in talking to the dead
Av Anne Kalvig
Inbunden, 2016
2578 kr
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Talking to the dead and communication with 'the other side' is often presented as a taboo in an increasingly technological and medically advanced world. However, practices of spiritualism and mediumship continue to remain popular and in high demand within contemporary Western societies. This book …
Postmortal Society
Towards a Sociology of Immortality
Inbunden, 2017
2433 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Throughout history mankind has struggled to reconcile itself with the inescapability of its own mortality. This book explores the themes of immortality and survivalism in contemporary culture, shedding light on the varied and ingenious ways in which humans and human societies aspire to confront and …
