What relationships do we have with our dead?
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By: Caroline Lachowsky
Why so many funeral rites? How humans from the origins and in all latitudes took care of their deceased? 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, from the origins, at all times and in all places, did we take care of our dead? Why so many different practices? What is there in common in all these rituals? What does that say about us, the living, about our relationship to death, our dead? So many essential, existential questions raised by our guest: the archaeologist doctor and professor of anthropobiology Éric Crubézy in a formidable survey to go back in time carried out in the four corners of the planet from Siberia to Cameroon, via Pharaonic Egypt or southern Europe.
His work On the origins of funeral rites See, hide, sacralize was published by Odile Jacob.
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