Dominion of the Dead
Dominion of the Dead How do the living maintain relations to the dead? And what is at stake when we do? Why do we bury people when they die? Harrison contends that we bury our dead to humanize the…
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Dominion of the Dead
How do the living maintain relations to the dead? And what is at stake when we do? Why do we bury people when they die?
Harrison contends that we bury our dead to humanize the lands where we build our present and imagine our future. 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 dead in their afterlife among us.This elegantly conceived work devotes particular attention to the practice of burial. As long as the dead are interred in graves and tombs, they never truly depart from this world, but remain, if only symbolically, among the living.
Spanning a broad range of examples, from the graves of our first human ancestors to the empty tomb of the
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