What’s your dust worth?
Steven Shapin: Corpses, 14 April 2011
After We Die: The Life and Times of the Human Cadaver
by Norman Cantor.
Georgetown, 372 pp., £18.75, December 2010,978 1 58901 695 8 Show More
by Norman Cantor.
Georgetown, 372 pp., £18.75, December 2010,
“... cosmetics. When the political use of the dead body is very important – think of Lenin, Stalin, Eva Perón, and the horribly botched embalming job on Mao Zedong – then state-of-the-art technologies are enlisted to perpetuate a material focus of veneration, as interpreted in Katherine Verdery’s magnificent The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and ... ”