Les Rites de l'au-delà. Protohistoire ten years after it went

ten years after it went out of print

long established in a country open to both the continent and the Mediterranean

and finally the foreign influences and indigenous traditions of the Roman era

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Volume 139

Les Rites de l'au-delà. Protohistoire ten years after it wentHumanity is defined by its relationship with death. Funeral rites are the trace of this essential relationship with the afterlife, which gives meaning to existence. Jean Pierre Mohen introduces us to them, in their richness, their variety, and sometimes their strangeness. From the Paleolithic to the beginnings of the Neolithic, via Egypt, Greece, ancient Rome, and even ancient China, to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance; from Jericho to Easter