{"product_id":"curious-coffins-and-riveting-rituals-death-practices-around-the-world","title":"Curious Coffins and Riveting Rituals: Death Practices Around the World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCurious Coffins and Riveting Rituals\u003c\/em\u003e by YY Liak is an illustrated tour of how people have buried, preserved, mourned and remembered their dead. Mummification in ancient Egypt, post-mortem photography in Victorian England, open-pyre cremation in India, the Japanese ritual of kotsuage, and Ghana's fantasy coffins, where a fisherman might be buried in a fish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYY is an author-illustrator based in Jersey City, and the book handles all of this with far more warmth than the subject usually gets. Full-colour artwork runs throughout, including a step-by-step look at embalming and diagrams of ancestral altars around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChronicle publishes this book as an adult title and it reads as one, but nothing in it is pitched over the head of a curious teen or tween, and it is a useful thing to have in the house when a real conversation about death comes up. Death rituals, as the book points out, were never really for the dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover\u003cbr\u003e192 pages\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lonely Planet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46121110077487,"sku":null,"price":40.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0072\/7285\/7647\/files\/CuriousCoffinsAndRivetingRituals-1.jpg?v=1788477066","url":"https:\/\/www.parkette.ca\/products\/curious-coffins-and-riveting-rituals-death-practices-around-the-world","provider":"Parkette.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}