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Author: Juliette Harrisson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351578391
Size: 46.51 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2018-09-10
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Imagining The Afterlife In The Ancient World eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Human beings have speculated about whether or not there is life after death, and if so, what form that life might take, for centuries. What did people in the ancient world think the next life would hold, and did they imagine there was a chance for a relationship between the living and the dead? How did people in the ancient world keep their dead loved ones alive through memory, and were they afraid the dead might return and haunt the living in another form? What sort of afterlife did the ancient Greeks and Romans imagine for themselves? This volume explores these questions and more. While individual representations of the afterlife have often been examined, few studies have taken a more general view of ideas about the afterlife circulating in the ancient world. By drawing together current research from international scholars on archaeological evidence for afterlife belief, chiefly from funerary sites, together with studies of works of literature, this volume provides a broader overview of ancient ideas about the afterlife than has so far been available. Imagining the Afterlife in the Ancient World explores these key questions through a series of wide-ranging studies, taking in ghosts, demons, dreams, cosmology, and the mutilation of corpses along the way, offering a valuable resource to those studying all aspects of death in the ancient world

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Author: Howard Reid
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466870575
Size: 60.22 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2014-05-06
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF In Search Of The Immortals eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Everyone knows that the ancient Egyptians were great mummifiers, and their sarcophagi and bandage-wrapped corpses are familiar images to us all. Yet across the vast sweep of history, we find many other great cultures in which the bodies of the dead were preserved as a matter of course. In coastal Peru were the Chinchorros, whose mummifying culture flowered several millennia before Egypt's, and in the Andes were the Chachapoyas, the 'Cloud People,' a lost civilization which has only recently begun to be understood. In China's Taklamakan desert, the oddly-Caucasian looking people who established the Silk Route, which made possible the first trade between East and West, have left behind stunningly lifelike mummies. The ritually sacrificed bodies preserved in the peat bogs of northern Europe give us an extraordinary insight into life in the Dark Ages. And in the Canary Islands, perhaps most surprisingly of all, lived the Guanches, whose sophisticated mummification techniques - and whose cultural links with the Egyptians - Howard Reid explores here for the first time. Taking his extraordinary first-hand experiences of discovering and filming mummies all over the world as his starting point, Howard Reid brings these ancient cultures vividly to life. And in so doing, In Search of the Immortals comes to represent his personal quest to find an answer to that most epic and timeless of human problems: the meaning of death.

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Book Detail:
Author: Guolong Lai
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295805706
Size: 12.83 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2015-05-01
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Excavating The Afterlife eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In Excavating the Afterlife, Guolong Lai explores the dialectical relationship between sociopolitical change and mortuary religion from an archaeological perspective. By examining burial structure, grave goods, and religious documents unearthed from groups of well-preserved tombs in southern China, Lai shows that new attitudes toward the dead, resulting from the trauma of violent political struggle and warfare, permanently altered the early Chinese conceptions of this world and the afterlife. The book grounds the important changes in religious beliefs and ritual practices firmly in the sociopolitical transition from the Warring States (ca. 453�221 BCE) to the early empires (3rd century�1st century BCE). A methodologically sophisticated synthesis of archaeological, art historical, and textual sources, Excavating the Afterlife will be of interest to art historians, archaeologists, and textual scholars of China, as well as to students of comparative religions. For more information: http://arthistorypi.org/books/excavating-the-afterlife

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Book Detail:
Author: Mark Smith
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191089753
Size: 51.18 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2017-02-09
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Following Osiris eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Osiris, god of the dead, was one of ancient Egypt's most important deities. The earliest secure evidence for belief in him dates back to the fifth dynasty (c.2494-2345BC), but he continued to be worshipped until the fifth century AD. Following Osiris is concerned with ancient Egyptian conceptions of the relationship between Osiris and the deceased, or what might be called the Osirian afterlife, asking what the nature of this relationship was and what the prerequisites were for enjoying its benefits. It does not seek to provide a continuous or comprehensive account of Egyptian ideas on this subject, but rather focuses on five distinct periods in their development, spread over four millennia. The periods in question are ones in which significant changes in Egyptian ideas about Osiris and the dead are known to have occurred or where it has been argued that they did, as Egyptian aspirations for the Osirian afterlife took time to coalesce and reach their fullest form of expression. An important aim of the book is to investigate when and why such changes happened, treating religious belief as a dynamic rather than a static phenomenon and tracing the key stages in the development of these aspirations, from their origin to their demise, while illustrating how they are reflected in the textual and archaeological records. In doing so, it opens up broader issues for exploration and draws meaningful cross-cultural comparisons to ask, for instance, how different societies regard death and the dead, why people convert from one religion to another, and why they abandon belief in a god or gods altogether.

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Author: John Noel Schofield
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 52.19 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 1951
Category: Bible
Language: en
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Download PDF Archaeology And The After Life eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Linda Pastan
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393037272
Size: 36.75 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 1995-01-01
Category: Poetry
Language: en
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Download PDF An Early Afterlife eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Poems deal with mortality, nature, work, aging, the seasons, time, and memory

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Author: Roger Ling
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 74.98 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2009
Category: Art, Roman
Language: en
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Download PDF Pompeii eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This book differs from previous studies in placing an emphasis on Pompeii's history. Using the evidence of the latest archaeological research, the author traces the evolution of the city from its origins as a small Oscan or Etruscan settlement of the seventh and sixth centuries BC to a flourishing urban centre of the early Roman Empire. Further chapters survey aspects of the life of the city in its last years and recount the story of its disappearance and rediscovery. -- P. [4] of cover.

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Book Detail:
Author: Perry Brass
Publisher: Perry Brass
ISBN:
Size: 60.32 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 1994
Category: Erotic stories, American
Language: en
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Download PDF Out There eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "Evil and its seductive twin, Eros, lurk all over. Sometimes together, sometimes in battle. ... What happens on a hostile, dark beach in Provincetown, Massachusetts? In the steamy swamps of the Texas/Louisiana border? In the sex-soaked grove of the vengeful phallic god Himself? ... [Here also are] a strange plaster doll, the reminder of an innocent man's burning at the stake centuries before; a luminous child from the tombs of ancient Egypt, who can save you from the claw grip of death; a Connecticut suburb where the 'Stepford wives' are men - and the guests of a ghostly Halloween party held on the filthy floor of Manhattan's once notorious sex bar, the Mineshaft."--Page 4 of cover.

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Book Detail:
Author: Aidan Dodson
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
ISBN: 1649031661
Size: 27.77 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2019-05-07
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Sethy I King Of Egypt eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. King Sethy I (also transcribed as Seti, Sethi and Sethos) ruled for around a decade in the early thirteenth century BC. His lifetime coincided with a crucial point in Egyptian history, following the ill-starred religious revolution of Akhenaten, and heralding the last phase of Egypt’s imperial splendor. As the second scion of a wholly new royal family, his reign did much to set the agenda for the coming decades, both at home and abroad. Sethy was also a great builder, apparently with exquisite artistic taste, to judge from the unique quality of the decoration of his celebrated monuments at Abydos and Thebes. This richly illustrated book tells the story of Sethy's career and monuments, not only in ancient times, but in modern history, and the impact of his legacy on today’s understanding and appreciation of ancient Egypt.

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Book Detail:
Author: Bonnie Effros
Publisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN: 9780271027852
Size: 49.19 MB
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Release Date: 2008-01
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Caring For Body And Soul eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The relationship between the living and the dead was especially significant in defining community identity and spiritual belief in the early medieval world. Peter Brown has called it the "joining of Heaven and Earth." For clerics and laypersons alike, funerals and burial sites were important means for establishing or extending power over rival families and monasteries and commemorating ancestors. In Caring for Body and Soul, Bonnie Effros reveals the social significance of burial rites in early medieval Europe during the time of the Merovingian (or so-called long-haired) kings from 500 to 800 C.E. Funerals provided an opportunity for the display of wealth through elaborate ceremonies involving the placement of goods such as weapons, jewelry, and ceramic vessels in graves and the use of aboveground monuments. In the late seventh century, however, these practices gave way to Masses and prayers for the dead performed by clerics at churches removed from cemeteries. Effros explains that this shift occurred not because inhabitants were becoming better Christians, as some have argued, since such activities were never banned or even criticized by the clergy. Rather, clerics successfully promoted these new rites as powerful means for families to express their status and identity. Effros uses a wide range of historical and archaeological evidence that few other scholars have mastered. The result is a revealing analysis of life and death that simultaneously underlines the remarkable adaptability and appeal of western Christianity in the early Middle Ages.

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Book Detail:
Author: Hendrik W. Dey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781316213636
Size: 74.94 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2014-10-29
Category: Art
Language: en
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Download PDF The Afterlife Of The Roman City eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This book offers a new and surprising perspective on the evolution of cities across the Roman Empire in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages (third to ninth centuries AD). It suggests that the tenacious persistence of leading cities across most of the Roman world is due, far more than previously thought, to the persistent inclination of kings, emperors, caliphs, bishops, and their leading subordinates to manifest the glory of their offices on an urban stage, before crowds of city dwellers. Long after the dissolution of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, these communal leaders continued to maintain and embellish monumental architectural corridors established in late antiquity, the narrow but grandiose urban itineraries, essentially processional ways, in which their parades and solemn public appearances consistently unfolded. Hendrik W. Dey's approach selectively integrates urban topography with the actors who unceasingly strove to animate it for many centuries.

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Book Detail:
Author: Gastón R. Gordillo
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822376903
Size: 37.44 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2014-07-28
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Rubble eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. At the foot of the Argentine Andes, bulldozers are destroying forests and homes to create soy fields in an area already strewn with rubble from previous waves of destruction and violence. Based on ethnographic research in this region where the mountains give way to the Gran Chaco lowlands, Gastón R. Gordillo shows how geographic space is inseparable from the material, historical, and affective ruptures embodied in debris. His exploration of the significance of rubble encompasses lost cities, derelict train stations, overgrown Jesuit missions and Spanish forts, stranded steamships, mass graves, and razed forests. Examining the effects of these and other forms of debris on the people living on nearby ranches and farms, and in towns, Gordillo emphasizes that for the rural poor, the rubble left in the wake of capitalist and imperialist endeavors is not romanticized ruin but the material manifestation of the violence and dislocation that created it.

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Author: Ian Archibald Richmond
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 54.70 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 1950
Category: Christian art and symbolism
Language: en
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Download PDF Archaeology And The After Life In Pagan And Christian Imagery eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Book Detail:
Author: Stephen E. Potthoff
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317294068
Size: 15.13 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2016-12-01
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF The Afterlife In Early Christian Carthage eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The Afterlife in Early Christian Carthage explores how the visionary experiences of early Christian martyrs shaped and informed early Christian ancestor cult and the construction of the cemetery as paradise. Taking the early Christian cemeteries in Carthage as a case study, the volume broadens our understanding of the historical and cultural origins of the early Christian cult of the saints, and highlights the often divergent views about the dead and post-mortem realms expressed by the church fathers, and in graveside ritual and the material culture of the cemetery. This fascinating study is a key resource for students of late antique and early Christian culture.

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Book Detail:
Author: Rogerio Sousa
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1789252636
Size: 39.50 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2019-12-19
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Gilded Flesh eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Egyptian coffins stand out in museum collections for their lively and radiant appearance. As a container of the mummy, coffins played a key role by protecting the body and, at the same time, integrating the deceased in the afterlife. The paramount importance of these objects and their purpose is detected in the ways they changed through time. For more than three thousand years, coffins and tombs had been designed to assure in the most efficient way possible a successful outcome for the difficult transition to the afterlife. This book examines eight non-royal tombs found relatively intact, from the plains of Saqqara to the sacred hills of Thebes. These almost undisturbed burial sites managed to escape ancient looters and so their discoveries, from Mariette’s exploration of the Mastaba of Ti in Saqqara to Schiaparelli’s discovery of the Tomb of Kha and Merit in Deir el-Medina, were sensational events in Egyptian archaeology. Each one of these sites unveils before our eyes a time capsule, where coffins and tombs were designed together as part of a social, political and religious order. From Predynastic times to the decline of the New Kingdom, this book explores each site revealing the interconnection between mummification practices, coffin decoration, burial equipment, tomb decoration and ritual landscapes. Through this analysis, the author aims to point out how the design of coffins changed through time in order to empower the deceased with different visions of immortality. By doing so, the study of coffins reveals a silent revolution which managed to open to ordinary men and women horizons of divinity previously reserved for the royal sphere. Coffins thus show us how identity was forged to create an immortal and divine self.

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Book Detail:
Author: Antonius C. G. M. Robben
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 111922229X
Size: 38.51 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2018-05-11
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF A Companion To The Anthropology Of Death eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A thought-provoking examination of death, dying, and the afterlife Prominent scholars present their most recent work about mortuary rituals, grief and mourning, genocide, cyclical processes of life and death, biomedical developments, and the materiality of human corpses in this unique and illuminating book. Interrogating our most common practices surrounding death, the authors ask such questions as: How does the state wrest away control over the dead from bereaved relatives? Why do many mourners refuse to cut their emotional ties to the dead and nurture lasting bonds? Is death a final condition or can human remains acquire agency? The book is a refreshing reassessment of these issues and practices, a source of theoretical inspiration in the study of death. With contributions written by an international team of experts in their fields, A Companion to the Anthropology of Death is presented in six parts and covers such subjects as: Governing the Dead in Guatemala; After Death Communications (ADCs) in North America; Cryonic Suspension in the Secular Age; Blood and Organ Donation in China; The Fragility of Biomedicine; and more. A Companion to the Anthropology of Death is a comprehensive and accessible volume and an ideal resource for senior undergraduate and graduate students in courses such as Anthropology of Death, Medical Anthropology, Anthropology of Violence, Anthropology of the Body, and Political Anthropology. Written by leading international scholars in their fields A comprehensive survey of the most recent empirical research in the anthropology of death A fundamental critique of the early 20th century founding fathers of the anthropology of death Cross-cultural texts from tribal and industrial societies The collection is of interest to anyone concerned with the consequences of the state and massive violence on life and death

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Book Detail:
Author: John H. Taylor
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674057500
Size: 74.89 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2010
Category: Book of the dead
Language: en
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Download PDF Journey Through The Afterlife eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. With contributions from leading scholars and detailed catalog entries that interpret the spells and painted scenes, this fascinating and important work affords a greater understanding of ancient Egyptian belief systems and poignantly reveals the hopes and fears about the world beyond death.

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Book Detail:
Author: Gina Ranalli
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 73.32 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2006
Category: Future life
Language: en
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Download PDF Suicide Girls In The Afterlife eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. After Pogue commits suicide, she unexpectedly finds herself an unwilling guest at a hotel in the Afterlife, where she meets a group of bizarre characters, including a goth Satan, a hippie Jesus, and an alien-human hybrid. This novella is from Gina Ranalli, an author of bizarro fiction, including Chemical Gardens and 13 Thorns (with 0utsider artist Gus Fink). Suicide Girls in the Afterlife is weird and fun and hauntingly bittersweet. I read it in one evening and enjoyed it very much. -Brian Keene, author of The Rising and The Conqueror Worms

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Book Detail:
Author: Terry G. Wilfong
Publisher: Kelsey Museum Publications
ISBN: 9780974187389
Size: 71.85 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2013
Category: Coffins
Language: en
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Download PDF Life Death And Afterlife In Ancient Egypt eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The elaborately decorated coffin of Djehutymose, a priest of the ancient Egyptian god Horus from around 625-580 BC, is one of the central artifacts of the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology's Egyptian collection. Using the images and texts from the coffin along with related artifacts in the Kelsey Museum, Egyptologist T. G. Wilfong explores what the coffin tells us about ancient Egyptian ideas of life, death, and the afterlife. We follow Djehutymose through his life as a priest, through his death, embalming, and afterlife, examining his gods and symbols as he undertakes a voyage into the afterlife. Finally we see how his coffin journeyed from ancient Egypt to modern Ann Arbor. This richly illustrated book serves as a general introduction to ancient Egyptian religion as well as a specialized study of a single Egyptian artifact in its wider contexts.

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Book Detail:
Author: Edwin Oliver James
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004016125
Size: 80.33 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 1966-06
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF The Tree Of Life eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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