{"product_id":"the-buried-soul-isbn-9780807046678","title":"The Buried Soul","description":"Do cannibals exist? Is there evidence for contemporary human sacrifice? What are vampires? \u003ci\u003eThe Buried Soul\u003c\/i\u003e charts the story of the human response to death from prehistory to the present day. This book is a radical adventure into the sepulchral world.Blazingly smart and deeply human.--Mary Roach, author of \u003ci\u003eStiff: The Curious Lives of Cadavers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Taylor makes sense of the ghastly and the seemingly insensible-African muti killings, human sacrifice, vampires, and triple-killed bog bodies. Archaeology was never so entertaining, and entertainment never so edifying. There is not a trite thought or lazy idea in this book.\"--Mary Roach, author of \u003ci\u003eStiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Buried Soul\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary immersion experience . . . I had always supposed that archeology was as dry as the dust and bones it traffics in, as pedestrian as the catalogs it compiles. On the contrary, when expounded by a masterly storyteller like Taylor, it resembles psychoanalysis at its best . . . I haven't space to illustrate how ingeniously Taylor assembles his interpretations, patiently working out the barely intelligible motives and beliefs of the creatures who became us . . . Wherever else you travel, you should consider a trip into 'deep time' with \u003ci\u003eThe Buried Soul\u003c\/i\u003e.\"--George Scialabba, \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Learned and impassioned . . . the lesson of Mr. Taylor's unsparing book is that . . . for most of human history, our attempts to deal with death-to appease it, master it, or simply make sense of it-have been deeply irrational and often cruel. More than any other human experience, death makes us savage.\"--Adam Kirsch, \u003ci\u003eNew York Sun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Absorbing and challenging . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Buried Soul\u003c\/i\u003e is vast, ambitious, and contentious. It ranges over two million years, from a cut-marked skull of Homo habilis to the death of a young man in 2000.\"--Katherine Ashenburg, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Scholar\u003c\/i\u003eTimothy Taylor, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Prehistory of Sex\u003c\/i\u003e, has appeared on National Geographic channel and HBO as an expert in ancient cultures; he teaches in the Department of Archaeological Sciences at the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom.","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300846653669,"sku":"NP9780807046678","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807046678.jpg?v=1767738562","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-buried-soul-isbn-9780807046678","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}