{"product_id":"on-our-way-9780520218802","title":"On Our Way","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLife has often been envisioned as a journey, the river of time carrying us inexorably toward the unknown country - and in our day we increasingly turn to myth and magic, ritual and virtual reality, cloning and cryostasis in the hope of eluding the reality of inevitable end. This book proposes a different way of understanding our last transition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations  1. Here (?) We Are 2. Practicing Death: Some Rituals of Everyday Life 3. Good Death, Bad Death (I): In Other Times and Places 4. Good Death, Bad Death (II): Here and Now 5. Corpsed Persons 6. Abusing and Eating the Dead 7. Too Many Dead: The Plague and Other Mass Deaths 8. Down to Earth and Up in Flames 9. Journey of the Dead 10. Living Through  Notes Sources Cited Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402809549143,"sku":"9780520218802","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520218802.jpg?v=1730481570","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/on-our-way-9780520218802","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}