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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226317939ISBN-10:226317935UPC:9780226317939Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Death & Dying, AnthropologyBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:8.60 x 5.66 x 0.64 inchesWeight:0.571Product ID:SCKX1AFSS0
The Dominion of the Dead
How do the living maintain relations to the dead? Why do we bury people when they die? And what is at stake when we do? In The Dominion of the Dead, Robert Pogue Harrison considers the supreme importance of these questions to Western civilization, exploring the many places where the dead cohabit the world of the living-the graves, images, literature, architecture, and monuments that house the...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226317939ISBN-10:226317935UPC:9780226317939Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Death & Dying, AnthropologyBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:8.60 x 5.66 x 0.64 inchesWeight:0.571Product ID:SCKX1AFSS0
Robert Pogue Harrison is the Rosina Pierotti Professor in Italian Literature and chairs the Department of French and Italian at Stanford University. He is the author of The Body of Beatrice and Forests: The Shadow of Civilization, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.
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