Mirrors of Passing

<p> Without exception all people are faced with the inevitability of death a stark fact that has immeasurably shaped societies and individual consciousness for the whole of human history. <em>Mirrors of Passing</em> offers a powerful window into this oldest of human preoccupations by investigating the interrelationships of death materiality and temporality across far-flung times and places. Stretching as far back as Ancient Egypt and Greece and moving through present-day locales as diverse as Western Europe Central Asia and the Arctic each of the richly illustrated essays collected here draw on a range of disciplinary insights to explore some of the most fundamental universal questions that confront us.</p>