Author: Emily Gallo
Publisher: Emily Gallo
ISBN: 1950561038
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Where can you find a cookie jar in the shape of a baseball filled with the ashes of an 84-year-old Chinese woman or a cardboard take-out carton with the remains of a 350-pound, agoraphobic pot-dealer? The Columbarium is the backdrop for peering into the eccentric lives of some of the dead, as well as of the people they left behind. When Jed takes a job fixing up the Columbarium, he is quickly thrust into the lives of strangers, both living and dead, and ultimately comes to terms with his past and his own psychological demons.
The Columbarium
Author: Emily Gallo
Publisher: Emily Gallo
ISBN: 1950561038
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Where can you find a cookie jar in the shape of a baseball filled with the ashes of an 84-year-old Chinese woman or a cardboard take-out carton with the remains of a 350-pound, agoraphobic pot-dealer? The Columbarium is the backdrop for peering into the eccentric lives of some of the dead, as well as of the people they left behind. When Jed takes a job fixing up the Columbarium, he is quickly thrust into the lives of strangers, both living and dead, and ultimately comes to terms with his past and his own psychological demons.
Publisher: Emily Gallo
ISBN: 1950561038
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Where can you find a cookie jar in the shape of a baseball filled with the ashes of an 84-year-old Chinese woman or a cardboard take-out carton with the remains of a 350-pound, agoraphobic pot-dealer? The Columbarium is the backdrop for peering into the eccentric lives of some of the dead, as well as of the people they left behind. When Jed takes a job fixing up the Columbarium, he is quickly thrust into the lives of strangers, both living and dead, and ultimately comes to terms with his past and his own psychological demons.
Columbarium Tombs and Collective Identity in Augustan Rome
Author: Dorian Borbonus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139867717
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Columbarium tombs are among the most recognizable forms of Roman architecture and also among the most enigmatic. The subterranean collective burial chambers have repeatedly sparked the imagination of modern commentators, but their origins and function remain obscure. Columbarium Tombs and Collective Identity in Augustan Rome situates columbaria within the development of Roman funerary architecture and the historical context of the early Imperial period. Contrary to earlier scholarship that often interprets columbaria primarily as economic burial solutions, Dorian Borbonus shows that they defined a community of people who were buried and commemorated collectively. Many of the tomb occupants were slaves and freed slaves, for whom collective burial was one strategy of community building that counterbalanced their exclusion in Roman society. Columbarium tombs were thus sites of social interaction that provided their occupants with a group identity that, this book shows, was especially relevant during the social and cultural transformation of the Augustan era.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139867717
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Columbarium tombs are among the most recognizable forms of Roman architecture and also among the most enigmatic. The subterranean collective burial chambers have repeatedly sparked the imagination of modern commentators, but their origins and function remain obscure. Columbarium Tombs and Collective Identity in Augustan Rome situates columbaria within the development of Roman funerary architecture and the historical context of the early Imperial period. Contrary to earlier scholarship that often interprets columbaria primarily as economic burial solutions, Dorian Borbonus shows that they defined a community of people who were buried and commemorated collectively. Many of the tomb occupants were slaves and freed slaves, for whom collective burial was one strategy of community building that counterbalanced their exclusion in Roman society. Columbarium tombs were thus sites of social interaction that provided their occupants with a group identity that, this book shows, was especially relevant during the social and cultural transformation of the Augustan era.
Columbarium Tombs and Collective Identity in Augustan Rome
Author: Dorian Borbonus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107031400
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
This book analyzes the architecture of columbarium tombs and explains their unique design with the particular social experience of their non-elite occupants.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107031400
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
This book analyzes the architecture of columbarium tombs and explains their unique design with the particular social experience of their non-elite occupants.
The Abc's of Building and Marketing A Columbarium Wall
Author: Integrity Burial Boxes Ltd
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1456750879
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1456750879
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
Columbarium
Author: Susan Stewart
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226774435
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Winner of the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award in the category of poetry. In her long-awaited fourth book of poetry, Susan Stewart gives us a series of splendid, numinous poems about truths learned with the mind but set free through the senses. Modeled on the seventeenth-century practice of century forms, or books of one hundred pages, Columbarium expresses the bond between the living and the dead in voices of parent to child, lover to beloved, and mortal to the gods. The book arrives as a meditative gift from one of our most respected poet-critics. Stewart frames her Columbarium with four poems paying homage to the elements-to their destructive and creative aspects and to their roles in the human and more than human worlds. Both nest and crypt, the book's center holds an alphabet of "shadow georgics," poems of instruction and doubt that link knowledge and the unconscious. Questions of mortality, of goodness and suffering, and of the fragility and power of memory animate these poems. In one poem an apple calls the narrator back from the dead to savor the echoes of its varieties in myth and literature. In another, the seeds of a pear tree reveal the essential unity that makes the diversity of existence possible. Stewart's Columbarium is both a memorial to the dead and a testament to life.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226774435
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Winner of the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award in the category of poetry. In her long-awaited fourth book of poetry, Susan Stewart gives us a series of splendid, numinous poems about truths learned with the mind but set free through the senses. Modeled on the seventeenth-century practice of century forms, or books of one hundred pages, Columbarium expresses the bond between the living and the dead in voices of parent to child, lover to beloved, and mortal to the gods. The book arrives as a meditative gift from one of our most respected poet-critics. Stewart frames her Columbarium with four poems paying homage to the elements-to their destructive and creative aspects and to their roles in the human and more than human worlds. Both nest and crypt, the book's center holds an alphabet of "shadow georgics," poems of instruction and doubt that link knowledge and the unconscious. Questions of mortality, of goodness and suffering, and of the fragility and power of memory animate these poems. In one poem an apple calls the narrator back from the dead to savor the echoes of its varieties in myth and literature. In another, the seeds of a pear tree reveal the essential unity that makes the diversity of existence possible. Stewart's Columbarium is both a memorial to the dead and a testament to life.
Purified by Fire
Author: Stephen Prothero
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520208161
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher Fact Sheet A history of cremation in America.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520208161
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher Fact Sheet A history of cremation in America.
Veterans' Housing, Burial and Cemetery Programs
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing, Insurance, and Cemeteries
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mobile homes
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mobile homes
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Public Works for Water and Power Development and Atomic Energy Commission Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1974
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2424
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2424
Book Description
Encyclopedia of Cremation
Author: Lewis H. Mates
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317143825
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 879
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of Cremation is the first major reference resource focused on cremation. Spanning many world cultures it documents regional histories, ideological movements and leading individuals that fostered cremation whilst also presenting cremation as a universal practice. Tracing ancient and classical cremation sites, historical and contemporary cremation processes and procedures of both scientific and legal kind, the encyclopedia also includes sections on specific cremation rituals, architecture, art and text. Features in the volume include: a general introduction and editorial introductions to sub-sections by Douglas Davies, an international specialist in death studies; appendices of world cremation statistics and a chronology of cremation; cross-referencing pathways through the entries via the index; individual entry bibliographies; and illustrations. This major international reference work is also an essential source book for students on the growing number of death-studies courses and wider studies in religion, anthropology or sociology.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317143825
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 879
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of Cremation is the first major reference resource focused on cremation. Spanning many world cultures it documents regional histories, ideological movements and leading individuals that fostered cremation whilst also presenting cremation as a universal practice. Tracing ancient and classical cremation sites, historical and contemporary cremation processes and procedures of both scientific and legal kind, the encyclopedia also includes sections on specific cremation rituals, architecture, art and text. Features in the volume include: a general introduction and editorial introductions to sub-sections by Douglas Davies, an international specialist in death studies; appendices of world cremation statistics and a chronology of cremation; cross-referencing pathways through the entries via the index; individual entry bibliographies; and illustrations. This major international reference work is also an essential source book for students on the growing number of death-studies courses and wider studies in religion, anthropology or sociology.