- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Theia (2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0786865512
- ISBN-13: 978-0760771518
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14.2 x 3.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 567 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,292,670 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Good introduction to the topic,
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This review is from: Mummy Congress (Hardcover)
The writer brings a journalistic approach to the topic of mummies and the sub-title of the book clearly defines the multiple angles she chose to follow. She covers a great deal of territory, both geographically (all the continents except Antarctica) historically, psychologically and morally.In a sense this is almost an "Encyclopedia of the Mummy" because it covers so many aspects of mummy hunting, dissecting and preserving. Most mummy hunters seem obsessed by their quest. They may be after mummies for scientific, historic, theatric or religious reasons, but hunt them they must. This raises moral issues; after all these were once human beings that we are putting on display, slicing for DNA or just carting off to some museums storage room. Can we justify it if we, say, understand some disease better after the research? Or is it just voyeurism for us all to know what the Iceman ate for his last meal? The writer introduces us to individual mummy hunters, strong characters all, and the unusual places they work. Her writing is clear and vivid, if a trifle long. She is at her best describing the moral and psychological issues surrounding our fascination with mummies and the way they relate to our own mortality anf hopes for immmortality.
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Great book on the science of the ancient dead,
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This review is from: THE MUMMY CONGRESS, SCIENCE, OBSESSION AND THE EVERLASTING DEAD. (Hardcover)
A great book about a weird topic. HP makes some very telling insights about mummies as dead people yet also as natural objects. She reports some very affecting anecdotes about both the mummies and the people who study them, and at the same time tells us a tremendous amount about the science of mummy study. A treat.
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Mummies Around the World,
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This review is from: THE MUMMY CONGRESS, SCIENCE, OBSESSION AND THE EVERLASTING DEAD. (Hardcover)
This was a great book. I purchased it to help with a paper I'm writing for a class on mummies at the New School in NY. You will take a trip around the world as the author invesitgates mummification. The book is also great if you want to read about a specific area, each chapter stands alone. I enjoyed it so much I plan to purchase her other works.
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