Being with the Dead: Burial, Ancestral Politics, and the Roots of Historical Consciousness by Hans Ruin

Being with the Dead: Burial, Ancestral Politics, and the Roots of Historical Consciousness

Hans Ruin

272 pages 2019

3 editions

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Philosophy, Socrates declared, is the art of dying. This book underscores that it is also the art of learning to live and share the earth with those who have come before us. Burial, with its surrounding rituals, is the most ancient documented cult...

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