Author: Koudounaris, Paul
Title: Memento Mori: The Dead Among Us
Description: Thames & Hudson, 2015. Hardcover. A blue satin hardcover with orange relief text and graphics. Front and back free end pages are orange. (12), 17-215, (1) pp. There are more than two hundred color photos, as well as many black and white photos. There are a few foldouts of glossy pages for his larger work. Memento Mori' takes the reader on a ghoulish but beautiful tour of some of the world's more unusual sacred sites and traditions, in which human remains are displayed for the benefit of the living. From burial caves in Indonesia festooned with bones, to skulls smoking cigarettes, wearing beanie hats and sunglasses, and decorated with garlands of flowers in South America, Paul Koudounaris ventures beyond the grave to find messages of hope and salvation. VG: A very clean exlibrary copy. Light residue from sticker at the base of the spine; labels inside free end papers. The binding is loose enough for the book to lie flat to display the larger images; sometimes there is a small gap, but everything is still held together.

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