Willem Van Swanenburg, “Death and an Arrow About to Strike the Man Down,” plate 4 from ‘Allegory of the Misuse of Worldly Property, after Maarten van Heemskerk,’ (1609), engraving, Dr. and Mrs. E.

Death. It’s the one certainty we all share, yet it’s become the shadow we dare not name. How did this happen? How did something as natural and sacred as death transform into a subject of fear and ...

K. Krombie, tour guide at Purefinder and author of Death in New York: History and Culture of Burials, Undertakers and Executions, leads her Death in New York tour stopping at City Hall Park on Oct. 20 ...

1. The Universality of Death -- 2. Before and after the Fact -- 3. The Mythical Place of Death -- 4. The Quick and the Dead: Relations across the Grave -- 5. Only Flesh and Blood -- 6. Political ...

Preface. Toward a new history of death -- Introduction. Mexico's national totem ; Death and the postimperial condition ; Purgatorius ; Intimacy with death ; Mexico's third totem ; Genealogies of ...