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Dance of Death, or the History of Cemeteries

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In the face of death, we are all equal, powerful and disadvantaged, happy and unhappy. However, this was not always the case: for many years only a privileged minority could count on individual burial, while ordinary people were content with common graves. In this book, the French sociologist and essayist Bertrand Marie traces the long history of burials from the dark. The Middle Ages to the present day, from cemeteries lost away from villages to urban necropolises. Fascinatingly combining history and sociology, Bertrand Marie talks about various funerary customs and practices, the mourning industry and people’s attitude to death. All Saints Day, military and civil cemeteries, tombs and temples, the right to the grave and the cult of the dead - the author shows what place in the life of people has always occupied and still occupies death.
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