Dying to Eat: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death, and the Afterlife by Cann, Candi K.

Dying to Eat: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death, and the Afterlife (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813178516)

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Dying to Eat: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death, and the Afterlife by Cann, Candi K.

Dying to Eat: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death, and the Afterlife

$35.00
Dying to Eat: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death, and the Afterlife by Cann, Candi K.

Dying to Eat: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death, and the Afterlife

$35.00
Format: Paperback
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Food has played a major role in funerary and memorial practices since the dawn of the human race. In the ancient Roman world, for example, it was common practice to build channels from the tops of graves into the crypts themselves, and mourners would regularly pour offerings of food and drink into these conduits to nourish the dead while they waited for the afterlife. Funeral cookies wrapped with printed prayers and poems meant to comfort mourners became popular in Victorian England; while in

Author: Candi K. Cann
ISBN-10: 0813178517
ISBN-13: 9780813178516
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 12/10/2019
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d

By Candi K. Cann
By Candi K. Cann
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Candi K. Cann is associate professor of religion at Baylor University. She is the author of The World Religions: Essential Readings and Handbook and Virtual Afterlives: Grieving the Dead in the Twenty-First Century.

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