How do the living maintain relations to the dead? Why do we bury people when they die? And what is at stake when we do? In The Dominion of the Dead, Robert Pogue Harrison considers the supreme importance of these questions to Western civilization,...
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How do the living maintain relations to the dead? Why do we bury people when they die? And what is at stake when we do? 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. Harrison contends that we bury our dead to humanize the lands where we build our pre
Contents; Preface; Note on References; Chapter 1. The Earth and Its Dead; Chapter 2. Hic Jacet; Chapter 3. What Is a House?; Chapter 4. The Voice of Grief; Chapter 5. The Origin of Our Basic Words; Chapter 6. Choosing Your Ancestor; Chapter 7. Hic Non Est; Chapter 8. The Names of the Dead; Chapter 9. The Afterlife of the Image; Notes; Works Cited; Index;
