Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time, Friedman Susan Stanford

Автор: Hammond, Robert, Mrc (stanford University California)
Название: Valley
ISBN: 1524630055 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781524630058
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Описание: -Stay close to the river, and you can't go far wrong.- These were the words that woke Molly from her sleep. They came from the next room, and the voice was strange to her. She crept out of bed and went to the door, which was partly open. Through the gap, she could see her mother huddled over the fading light from the fire in the hearth. She had a shawl wrapped around her shoulders and was listening to someone who had their back to the bedroom door. Molly could tell it was the voice of an old man, he sounded friendly but cautious. -It may take a week by foot in this weather, so here is some money to provide food and lodgings along the way.- With that, the stranger stood up and wished Molly's mother, -Godspeed and may your prayers be answered.-

Автор: Peter Stanford
Название: How to Read a Graveyard
ISBN: 1472909186 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472909183
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Описание: Death is the one certainty in life, yet, with the decline of religion in the West, we have become collectively reluctant to talk about it. Our contemporary rituals seek to sanitise death and distance us from our own inevitable fate. If we want to know how previous generations dealt with death, graveyards (famous and not) tell us the history -- if we are able to read them.

If we want to know how we struggle today with understanding or facing up to death, then graveyards provide a starting point. And, if we want to escape the present taboo on acknowledging our mortality and contemplate our own end, then graveyards offer a rare welcome. From Neolithic mounds to internet memorials via medieval corpse roads and municipal cemeteries, war graves and holocaust memorials, Roman catacombs, Pharaonic grave-robbers, Hammer horrors, body-snatchers, Days of the Dead, humanist burials and flameless cremations, Stanford shows us how to read a graveyard, what to look out for in our own, and how even the most initially unpromising exploration can enthral.