What relationship do we have with our dead?
(Replay)
The origins of funeral rites.
Editions Odile Jacob
By: Caroline Lachowsky
2 min
Why so many funeral rites?
How have humans since the beginning and in all latitudes taken care of their dead?
What does this say about our relationship to death and our deaths?
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Let us ask ourselves about the funeral rites of Humanity ... How, since the origins, at all times and in all places, have we taken care of our dead?
Why so many different practices?
What do all of these rituals have in common?
What does that say about us, the living, about our relationship to death, to our dead?
So many essential, existential questions raised by our guest: the archaeologist and professor of anthropobiology
Éric Crubézy
in a formidable investigation to go back in time, carried out to the four corners of the planet from Siberia to Cameroon, passing through Pharaonic Egypt or southern Europe.
His work The
origins of funeral rites.
To see, to hide, to sanctify
was published by Odile Jacob.
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