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- catalog abstract ""Do cannibals exist? It there evidence for contemporary human sacrifice? What are vampires? The Buried Soul charts the story of the human response to death from prehistory to the present day. At some moment in human history, our ancestors invented "death." Retracing four million years, this book investigates the many ways that humans, in facing death, first understood what it was to be alive. Their confrontation with mortality survives in early accounts of sacrifices, in blindfolded bodies preserved in peat bogs, and in the elaborate burials of disabled or deformed individuals among Neanderthals and the people of the Ice Age." "Timothy Taylor has spent his life sifting through the relics of encounters with death. In The Buried Soul he gathers evidence of how the ancients saw their universe and asks how we came to have not only a sense of the afterlife but also an image of the soul."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b13325274.
- catalog created "[2004]".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "[2004]".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "[2004]".
- catalog description ""Do cannibals exist? It there evidence for contemporary human sacrifice? What are vampires? The Buried Soul charts the story of the human response to death from prehistory to the present day. At some moment in human history, our ancestors invented "death." Retracing four million years, this book investigates the many ways that humans, in facing death, first understood what it was to be alive. Their confrontation with mortality survives in early accounts of sacrifices, in blindfolded bodies preserved in peat bogs, and in the elaborate burials of disabled or deformed individuals among Neanderthals and the people of the Ice Age." "Timothy Taylor has spent his life sifting through the relics of encounters with death. In The Buried Soul he gathers evidence of how the ancients saw their universe and asks how we came to have not only a sense of the afterlife but also an image of the soul."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-344) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction : sentiments and chronologies -- Ascending underground -- A skeleton illuminated by lightning -- The edible dead -- The foreign witness -- Welcome to weirdworld -- Vexed ghosts -- Annihilation -- Beyond the Pavlov Hills -- An unexpected vampire -- The singing bone -- Conclusion : visceral insulation.".
- catalog extent "x, 353 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Buried soul.".
- catalog identifier "0807046728 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Buried soul.".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "[2004]".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Beacon Press,".
- catalog relation "Buried soul.".
- catalog subject "393 22".
- catalog subject "Burial.".
- catalog subject "Death Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "Excavations (Archaeology)".
- catalog subject "Funeral rites and ceremonies History.".
- catalog subject "Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient.".
- catalog subject "GT3150 .T26 2004".
- catalog subject "Human remains (Archaeology)".
- catalog subject "Human sacrifice Comparative studies.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction : sentiments and chronologies -- Ascending underground -- A skeleton illuminated by lightning -- The edible dead -- The foreign witness -- Welcome to weirdworld -- Vexed ghosts -- Annihilation -- Beyond the Pavlov Hills -- An unexpected vampire -- The singing bone -- Conclusion : visceral insulation.".
- catalog title "The buried soul : how humans invented death / Timothy Taylor.".
- catalog type "Comparative studies. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".