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Work Of The Dead Laqueur. UC Berkeley history professor Thomas Laqueur has won the 2016 Cundill Prize for Historical Literature for his latest book The Work of the Dead. No culture has been indifferent to mortal remains. I first became aware of this quite intensely when I was a teenager because of the First World War. In The Work of the Dead acclaimed cultural historian Thomas Laqueur.
Even in our supposedly disenchanted scientific age the dead body still. For Laqueur The dead like death itself are of overwhelming consequence. Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud as well as many articles and reviews. For instance the death of Charlotte Brontë who was buried in a church vault in the 1850s doesnt fit into Laqueurs chronology. No culture has been indifferent to mortal remains. UC Berkeley history professor Thomas Laqueur has won the 2016 Cundill Prize for Historical Literature for his latest book The Work of the Dead.
Laqueur is a free NetGalley ebook that I read in early October as a more academic anthropological counterpart to Mary Roachs Stiff.
Thomas Walter Laqueur born September 6 1945 is an American historian sexologist and writer. In The Work of the Dead acclaimed cultural historian Thomas Laqueur examines why humanity has universally rejected Diogeness argument. The Work of the Dead by Thomas W. She is author of Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture 2014 and The Brontë. A CulTural hisTory of MorTal reMains 247 of the role of history through memory. For Laqueur The dead like death itself are of overwhelming consequence.