Memento Mori: The Dead Among Us - Rilegato

Koudounaris, Paul

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ISBN 10: 0500517789 ISBN 13: 9780500517789

Casa editrice: Thames & Hudson, 2015

Riassunto

Death is universal, but the human response to death varies widely. In Western society, death is usually medicalized and taboo, and kept apart from the world of the living, while in much of the rest of the world, and for much of human history, death has commonly been far more integrated into peoples’ daily existence, and human remains are as much a reminder of life, memento vitae, as of death, memento mori.Through photos taken at more than 250 sites in thirty countries over a decade, Paul Koudounaris has captured death around the world. From Bolivia’s “festival of the little pug-nosed ones,” where skulls are festooned with flowers and given cigarettes to smoke and beanie hats to protect them from the weather to Indonesian families who dress mummies and include them in their household routines; from naturally preserved Buddhist monks and memorials to genocide in Rwanda and Cambodia to the dramatic climax of Europe’s great ossuaries, Memento Mori defies taboo to demonstrate how the dead continue to be present in the lives of people everywhere.

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This is an engrossing, albeit unsettling, read. --Royal Photographic Society Journal

A visually disturbing study of human remains as used around the world in decorative, commemorative, or devotional rites, guaranteed to make your hair stand on end. --Birmingham Post

In the midst of life, you need a good book about death. This is it. --Fortean Times

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• Editore: Thames & Hudson
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0500517789
• ISBN 13: 9780500517789
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 210