Buried Soul : How Humans Invented Death

Name: Buried Soul : How Humans Invented Death
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ISBN: 9780807046678

ISBN-10: 0807046671

ISBN-13: 9780807046678

Edition: 2005

Authors: Timothy Taylor

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The Buried Soul is a worldwide exploration of the rites and rituals of death. Timothy Taylor"s search spans all of human history and interweaves the author"s own experience of bewildering deaths. By combining cutting-edge science, personal insight, and scholarship, The Buried Soul offers a radical voyage into sepulchral worlds. "The Buried Soul, by British archeologist Timothy Taylor, is an extraordinary immersion experience . . . I had always supposed that archeology was as dry as the dust and bones it traffics in, as pedestrian as the catalogs it compiles. On the contrary, when expounded by a masterly storyteller like Taylor, it resembles psychoanalysis at its best...I haven"t space to…

Book details

Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 8/15/2005
Binding: Perfect
Pages: 368
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction: Sentiments and Chronologies



Ascending Underground



A Skeleton Illuminated by Lightning



The Edible Dead



The Foreign Witness



Welcome to Weirdworld



Vexed Ghosts



Annihilation



Beyond the Pavlov Hills



An Unexpected Vampire



The Singing Bone


Conclusion: Visceral Insulation


Notes


Bibliography


Index