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ISBN10: 2738103243
ISBN13: 9782738103246
Publisher: Odile Jacob
Published: Aug 24 1995
Pages: 330
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: French
ISBN13: 9782738103246
Publisher: Odile Jacob
Published: Aug 24 1995
Pages: 330
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: French
We must hate death because it destroys reason wrote Casanova. This modern phrase expresses well our fear about what seems absurd to us. Yet, most of yesterday s societies attempted to give meaning to this unthinkable idea. Beliefs, myths, monuments, regulations, celebrations, customs, artistic creations: only a few signs remain today of all this. Jean-Pierre Mohen, an archeologist as well as an historian and an ethnologist, gives here a fascinating anthology lavishly illustrated of ancient and traditional rituals of death.
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