General Information

Author/Creator

Ruin, Hans, 1961- author.

Language

English.

Published

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018.

Physical Description

xii, 249 p. ; 23 cm.

Subjects

Subject

Burial > Philosophy.

Dead.

Funeral rites and ceremonies.

Memory (Philosophy)

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Hans Ruin.

Content

Thinking after life : historicity and having-been -- Thanatologies : the social meaning of burial -- Ancestrality : ghosts, forefathers, and other dead -- Necropolitics : contested communities and remains of the dead -- Ossuary hermeneutics : necropolitical sites of archaeology -- Visiting the land of the dead : history as necromancy -- The tomb of metaphysics : writing, memory, and the arts of survival.

ISBN

9780804791311

9781503607750

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	393.1 RUI		Reference	-

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