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The ultimate death compendium, featuring the world's most extraordinary artistic and ethnographic objects concerned with mortality, together with text by expert contributors.

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'A delightfully dark compendium' - The Economist

Table of Contents
1. The Art of Dying • 2. Examining the Dead • 3. Memorialising the Dead • 4. The Personification of Death • 5. Symbolising Death • 6. Death as Amusement • 7. The Dead After Life

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    A Hardback by Joanna Ebenstein

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      Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
      Published 26 October 2017
      ISBN-13 9780500519714
      978-0500519714
      ISBN-10 0500519714
      Also in:
      Politics, Philosophy & Society Popular culture Sociology: death and dying

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The ultimate death compendium, featuring the world's most extraordinary artistic and ethnographic objects concerned with mortality, together with text by expert contributors.

      Trade Review
      'A delightfully dark compendium' - The Economist

      Table of Contents
      1. The Art of Dying • 2. Examining the Dead • 3. Memorialising the Dead • 4. The Personification of Death • 5. Symbolising Death • 6. Death as Amusement • 7. The Dead After Life

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