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No Author
The Attila "Peacemakers" Cyprus July 20 - Oct. 1 1974
Book shows light wear to covers only with creaseless covers and spine, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Illustrated with very graphic photos of destruction caused by the bombing and Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. 8 by 10.75 inches. 110 pages. Includes a timeline of the history of Cyprus, maps with a timeline of invading Turkish forces, dispersed population tables, newspaper clippings, U.N. statements, specific military capabilities, etc.
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Rainer, Arnulf; Jean-Michel Foray
Arnulf Rainer: Visages
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 130 pages. 9 1/2"w x 11 5/8"h. Text in German and English. Signed by Arnulf Rainer on title page. Introductory essay by Jean-Michel Foray.
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Reinhold Heller
Munch: His Life and Work
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 240 pages, loaded with b&w prints, some full page, full color, plus photos of salons, workshops, etc. History of the artist from 1863 through chapters of Indecision, Formation of a new aesthetic, Kristiania and Berlin, Years of crisis and success, and a Stranger to the World, ending in 1944.
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Moiseiwitsch, Carel; West, Ross Evan
Forgotten
Tells the story of the battle of the Somme in World War I in black and white linoleum cut prints. 4 3/4"w x 8 3/4"h. 20 leaves in long folding concertina form, held in slip case. "Limited edition of 100 copies. 'Forgotten' was letterpress printed at Black Stone Press in Spring 1998. Printed on Mohawk Superfine text, Mohawk Vellum cover. The typeface is News Gothic. Designed, printed and bound by David Clifford. 'Forgotten' was previously printed in 'Flashmarks' in 1989 by Fantagraphic Books, Seattle'--Colophon. Linoleum cut images by Carel Moiseiwitsch and text by Ross Evan West are letterpress printed on one side of a paper accordion. Accordion structure is attached at either end to red Mohawk Vellum over boards, printed with the title and artist's name. Housed in a red Mohawk Vellum sleeve mimicking the cover in design, with the publisher's name printed on the back." [WorldCat] Slight edge wear to slipcase.
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Beardsley, Aubrey
The Later Work of Aubrey Beardsley
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Wear to cover. 174 pages; many b&w illustrations and two color plates. 8 1/8"w x 11"h.
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Martin Day, Frances; Phyllis Spence & Barbara Ladouceur, Editors
Women Overseas: Memoirs of the Canadian Red Cross Corps
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 382 pages.
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Hughes, Richard
A High Wind in Jamaica or The Innocent Voyage
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Very slight edge wear. Previous owner's name inside. 192 pages. "A hot draught of mad, primal fantasy and poetry."
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Munch, Edvard
Edvard Munch: Vancouver Art Gallery, May 31 to August 4, 1986
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 96 pages. 9"w x 10 1/2"h.
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Creeley, Robert
Life & Death
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Inscribed by Creeley on the title page. Full gray cloth boards. 88 pages.
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French, Renee
Marbles in My Underpants
Creaseless covers with a little edge and corner wear. Unpaginated, about 150 pages of b&w comix. Introduction by Jim Woodring. "Through horror, psychedelia, and, ultimately, a skewed approach to conventional storytelling, French gets to the dark middle of the human psyche crafting a truly unique comic-book experience."
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Tampion, John
Dangerous Plants
Book is a paperback with a dust jacket and the jacket is chipped at the top spine, with light wear generally. Publisher's page is missing; otherwise binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 176 pages with b&w drawings throughout, detailed descriptions of such plants as Foxglove, Henbane, Aminita Musceria, Poison, Poison Sumac, Mandrake, Panther Mushroom, Death Cap, Destroying Angel, Ink Cap, Mushrooms, Earth Ball, Fake Morel, etc.
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Jacobs, Jane
The Nature of Economies
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 192 pages.
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Easwaran, Eknath
The Undiscovered Country: Exploring the Promise of Death
Slight pencil marking. Previous owner's bookplate inside. 144 pages.
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Fish, Harriet U.
Law Enforcement in Washington State: The First One-Hundred Years 1889-1989
Book is in excellent condition with a tiny bit of wear at lower corners only. Dark blue cloth covers with embossed gilt print at cover and spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 319 pages in oblong format. Chapters include: Beginning in law and order, Causatives in (same), Marshals -- their jails and detention, codes, courts and governments, Agencies develop, Training to professionalism, Death in the line of duty, Progressions in looks, equipment, mobility, communications, etc. Heavily illustrated with photos, some highlights include the contents displayed of two WA St. patrol cars, one in 1960 and one in 1988; air surviellance over the years, crashes, bridge being swept away by log debris, motorcycle cop stunts, Still and pot raids, drug busts and killings, Green River murders, Kenneth Bianchi, Lists of marshals and chiefs from all over Wa state, directors of the Secret Service, State Patrol, etc. Inscribed on the title page by author to noted N.W. historian Paul Dorpat with letter from same to same. First edition #939 of a run of 2000.
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Leasor, James
The Plague and the Fire
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Age-toned pages. 186 pages.
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Martin, H.V.
Kierkegaard: The Meloncholy Dane
Book shows light wear to black cloth covers. Binding is solid and square, tex is underlined occasionally, prev. owner's name at inside cover.
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Pelgrom, Els; Arnold Pomerans
Little Sophie and Lanky Flop
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Open tears on dust jacket. 7 5/8"w x 10 5/8"h. 88 pages.
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Jaspers, Karl
Reason and Existenz: Five Lectures (Marquette Studies in Philosophy)
Book is in excellent condition with very light shelf wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind.
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Matthews, John
The Song of Taliesin: Tales from King Arthur's Bard
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 234 pages. Light wear to cover.
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Frost, Robert
Pocket Book of Robert Frost's Poems, A
Book is in excellent condition with creaseless covers and spine, light edgewear. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 262 pages on age-toned paper. The glue in this perfect bound book is over 50 years old and is likely fragile.
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Rexroth, Kenneth
Classics Revisited
Book is in excellent condition with creaseless covers. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Sections include: Job, The Mahabharata, The Kalevala, Sappho, Aeschylus, The Oresteia, Euripides, Plato, The trial and death of Socrates, The Republic, Lucretius, Chaucer, Tu Fu, Poems, Ben Jonson, Folpone, Casanova, History of my life, Walt Whitman, Tolstoy, Rimbaud, etc.
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Ulak, James T.; Alexandra Munroe, Masami Teraoka; Lynda Hess
Paintings By Masami Teraoka
Book is in excellent condition with a little wear to covers: a tiny bit of edge wear, back cover has a few marks at lower corner. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking except for occasional small checks in margin in pen. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. 39 full page, full color reproductions with text to page 60. The work is notable for images of catfish, condoms, sexuality, demons, octopus, vaginal display, death, scuba gear, Christian iconography, vultures, computer gear, blood, technology, wires, noodles in a traditionalist Japanese painting motif. Fun.
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Curtin, Cait
The Grand Lady of Fourth Avenue: Portland's Historic Multnomah Hotel
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Shiny green cover with gilt lettering. Large format: 9 7/8"w x 13 1/2"h. 84 pages. Many b&w photos.
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Turner, Victor
Ritual Process, The: Structure and Anti-Structure
Book shows light wear to covers, some edge wear. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. 213 pages with b&w photos throughout. Contents include: Planes of classification in a ritual of life and death, Paradoxes of twinship in Ndembu ritual, Communitas: model and pocess, etc.
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Bateson, Gregory
Naven: A Survey of the Problems suggested by a Composite Picture of the Culture of a New Guinea Tribe drawn from Three Points of View
Book is in excellent condition with very light shelf wear only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. B&W photo section, About 340 pages.
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Hesse, Hermann
Narcissus and Goldmund
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Light foxing. 312 pages. Tiny sticker on front cover.
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Knox, Ronald A.
Hidden Stream, The
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, exterior shows no flaws with creaseless covers and spine, sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. The glue in this perfect bound book is over 50 years old and is likely fragile.
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Breton, Andre; Eluard, Paul
The Immaculate Conception
Light wear to cover. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 124 pages. Translated by Jon Graham; Frontispiece by Salvador Dali; Introduction by Antony Melville.
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Morton, Elizabeth Gron
Dimensions of Power
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full gray cloth spine. Slightly bumped corners. 11 1/8"w x 11 1/4"h. 96 pages. Color photographs, often full-page. "Published in connnection with the Museum's reinstallation of highlights of its African collection."
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Tejaratchi, Sean
Crap Hound #6 ; Death, Telephones & Scissors
Staple-bound magazine of alternative clip art, social philosophy. Packed full of vintage and contemporary black and white graphics on the themes of death, telephones, and scissors. Includes TV Guide parody at rear. First printing of this issue, 1999.
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Tejaratchi, Sean
Crap Hound #6 ; Death, Telephones & Scissors
Staple-bound magazine of alternative clip art, social philosophy. Packed full of vintage and contemporary black and white graphics on the themes of death, telephones, and scissors. Includes TV Guide parody at rear. 100 pages. Revised Second Edition, 2006.
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Tejaratchi, Sean
Crap Hound #6 ; Death, Telephones & Scissors
Staple-bound magazine of alternative clip art, social philosophy. Packed full of vintage and contemporary black and white graphics on the themes of death, telephones, and scissors. Includes TV Guide parody at rear. 116 pages. Fourth edition with addendum, 2012.
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Tejaratchi, Sean
Crap Hound #6 ; Death, Telephones & Scissors
Staple-bound magazine of alternative clip art, social philosophy. Packed full of vintage and contemporary black and white graphics on the themes of death, telephones, and scissors. Includes TV Guide parody at rear. 116 pages. Fourth edition with addendum, 2012.
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Tejaratchi, Sean
Crap Hound #6 ; Death, Telephones & Scissors
Staple-bound magazine of alternative clip art, social philosophy. Packed full of vintage and contemporary black and white graphics on the themes of death, telephones, and scissors. Includes TV Guide parody at rear. 116 pages. Fourth edition with addendum, 2012.
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Poe, Edgar Allen
Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The: In Five Volumes
Five volume set in black cloth HB covers with gilt at spine, embossed initials of Mr. Poe. Bindings are solid and square, with light wear to corners, at top and bottom spine, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Each volume about 375 pages, includes The Life and Death of Poe; The Gold Bug; The Fall of the House of Usher; The Pit and the Pendulum; The Murders in the Rue Morgue; Some Words with a Mummy; The Raven; The Oblong Box; Shadow - A Parable; Narrative of A. Gordon Pym; and much collected poetry, Printed on heavy, high quality paper, showing no foxng. Each volume illustrated with a full page color print of a painting by Arthur E. Becher opposite title page.
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Wassing, R.S.
African Art: Its Background and Traditions
Large book: 11 1/2"h x 10"w in excellent condition, as new in heavy black cloth HB covers, gilt print at spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 285 pages with a great many b&w and color large, often full page, photos throughout, including sculpture, masks, furniture, pottery, helmets, cookery, plaques, jewelry, doors, etc. from Mali, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Ghana, Nigeria, Congo, Cameroun, Sierra Leone, etc. Contents include: The African and his environment: Bushmen, Negritos or Pygmies, Negroes, Bantu, Hamitic peoples, Nilo-Hamites and nilotes; Material aspect of art, Social life : Birth and youth, Maturity, Death, Age groups, Secret societies, legal power, rank and state procedures, Economics, Relion and the supernatural, Play, etc. copyright 2011 Pistil Books
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Schoenberner, Gerhard, et al.
The Wannsee Conference and the Genocide of the European Jews Guide and Reader to the Permanent Exhibit in the House of the Wannsee Conference
Guide to the museum House of the Wannsee Conference shows light wear to covers only.. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Contents include: Jewish ghettos, Mass executions, deportations, Transit camps, death camps, Auschwitz, Life in a concentration camp, etc. 205 pages with a great many b&w photos, copies of captured documents.
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Cavendish, Richard (editor)
Man, Myth & Magic: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Supernatural (24 volume set)
Light wear and scuffing to covers. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight bindings. Many color photos and illustrations. Each volume is around 150 pages 8 5/8"w x 12'H. Produced in consultation with the world's foremost authorities: more than 200 expert authors from all over the world. This enquiry into the supernatural "takes you deep into the wellsprings of the human mind, now as in the past. That is what a study of man and the supernatural is about, and that is why it matters." From Aberdeen Witches to Zurvan. Editorial Advisory Board: C.A. Burland, Glyn Daniel, E.R. Dodds, Mircea Eliade, William Sargant, John Symonds, R.J. Zwi Werblosky, R.C. Zaehner
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Burden, Bob; Dave Sim (intro.)
Flaming Carrot Comics: Man of Mystery [Collected Album #2]
Book shows light shelf wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, decorated endpapers. Text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 125 pages, all b&w. Contains issues #1 through #3: with stories: I Carrot, Road Hogs from Outer Space, Flaming Carrot and His World, Death Gets Drunk, The Bandit Moons, Adventures in Limbo, etc. copyright Pistil Books, 2011
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Kaufmann, Walter
Nietzsche: Philosopher Psychologist Antichrist
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Light wear to cover. Previous owner's name inside. 412 pages.
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Hemingway, Ernest
Death in the Afternoon
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Light wear and marks on full black cloth cover. Previous owner's bookplate inside. A later printing. "Hemingway became a bullfighting aficionado after seeing the Pamplona fiesta in the 1920s, which he wrote about in The Sun Also Rises. In Death in the Afternoon, Hemingway explores the metaphysics of bullfighting the ritualized, almost religious practice that he considered analogous to the writer's search for meaning and the essence of life. In bullfighting, he found the elemental nature of life and death." [Wikipedia]
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Glob, P.V.
The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved
A clean, unmarked book. Full brown cloth boards. Loose rear hinge. Light wear to dust jacket. Previous owner's name inside.
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Volavkova, Hana (editor)
I never saw another butterfly. Children's drawings and poems from Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942-1944
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name inside. Full beige cloth boards with gilt and black drawing on cover. Previous owner's name inside. 7 3/8"w x 11"h. 82 pages. Color illustrations. Circa 1962.
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Moody, Anne
Mr. Death: Four Stories
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Light wear to cover. 102 pages. Blurb taped to front endpaper.
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SEDAT VEYIS ÖRNEK.
Anadolu folklorunda ölüm.
Fine English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. 149 p. Anadolu folklorunda ölüm. 'Death' subject in Anatolian folklore. Rare.
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SEDAT VEYIS ÖRNEK.
Anadolu folklorunda ölüm.
Fine English Paperback., Fine., 24 x 17 cm., 149 p., "Anadolu folklorunda ölüm.", Sedat Veyis Örnek, Ankara Üniversitesi Basimevi, Ank., 1979.
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Edited by ANNE-VALERIE SCHWEYER.
Les Lyciens et la mort. Une etude d'historie sociale.
New English Paperback. Pbo. 4to. (28 x 22,5 cm). In French. 317 p., 39 b/w plates. B/w ills. A heavy volume. Les Lyciens et la mort. Une etude d'historie sociale. Following the presentation of the subject with its chronological limits and sources, the researcher continues with tomb types, lexicological study, funeral rites and cult, protection of the tombs, profanation of the tombs and the tomb as a reflection of a society. A collection of inscriptions is also given in detail.
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AHMET EMRE BILGILI.
Rituals of condolence as sociological dimension of death. Cases from East and South-East Anatolia in Turkey.
New English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. 82 p. Contents: Preface On the Notion of Death The Sociological Dimension of Death: Tradition of Condolence The Objective of the Research - The Methodology of the Research Condolence as a Social Body The Tradition of Condolence in the East and Southeast Anatolia The Commencement of the Condolence: Announcement of the Death - Psychological Support: First hours of the Family after the Death - Areas Deferred in Modern Life: Cemetery Rituals - A Place Donated by the Memories of the Deceased: The Condolence Location - Condolence and Daily Life - The Roles and Places of Wailing Women within the Tradition of Condolence: Lament - Condolence as a Social Interaction - Case Study 1: The Tradition of Condolence among Arabs in Siirt - Case Study 2: The Tradition of Condolence among Syriac and Yazidi communities - Case Study 3: A Case from an Alawi Village in Mus Varto The Changing Face of Condolence The New Location of Condolence: The House of Condolence - The Portable Location of Condolence: The Condolence Tent - Changing Patterns in the Tradition of Condolence The Tradition of Condolence in Photographs Conclusion Bibliography.
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KAMIL ATESOGULLARI.
Bir insanlik suçu: Ölüm cezasi.
Fine Turkish Paperback. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. [xxiv], 200 p. Bir insanlik suçu: Ölüm cezasi. Survey of death penalty in the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey. Untersuchung der Todesstrafe im Osmanischen Reich und in der modernen Türkei. First Edition.
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EDHEM ELDEM.
Death in Istanbul: Death and its rituals in Ottoman Islamic culture.
New English Paperback. 4to. (28 x 23 cm). In English. 299, [1] p., color and b/w ills. Death in Istanbul: Death and its rituals in Ottoman Islamic culture. The idea of an exhibition/catalogue on death may not sound very pleasant. After all, it is only natural to experience some discomfort, displeasure, anxiety, even disgust in the face of a phenomenon that may summon painful memories and provoke fears about the future. Yet, there is no denying that death, once tamed as an abstract notion or concept, can become a powerful tool for social analysis. It can thus become a fascinating area of study, likely to reveal much about the culture, mentalities and social structure of a given society. This is what this exhibition and its catalogue hope to attain. Their objective is to try to pinpoint, through hopefully representative examples, the ways in which death has been perceived by the Muslim population of Ottoman Istanbul throughout five centuries of existence, and to understand the role it may have played in the life of the Imperial capital." To maintain a certain consistency, this publication has been limited to the period from 1453 to 1922 and deals uniquely with the culture and mentalities of the Muslim population within the boundaries of the Ottoman capital, Istanbul. Underlying the work is the notion of change in Ottoman death culture over this five-century period with a particular emphasis on the significant transformations which occurred in the 19th century. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach to balance the varying viewpoints on death contributed by ethnography, urban history, anthropology, political history and philology, this work is designed as a collection of case studies regrouped under a number of general headings, including amongst others, Death and the City, Empire and Death, the Birth of the Ottoman Tombstone, Suicide, Dealing with Death, Women, Aspects of Modernity, and State, Nation and Death.
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