Being with the dead : burial, ancestral politics, and the roots of historical consciousness - Ruin, Hans, 1961- (Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Burial -- Philosophy; Dead; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Memory (Philosophy)