{"id":1354,"date":"2014-09-16T14:49:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T04:06:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"lecture-bones-death-and-other-fun-stuff-with-paul-koudounaris-at-the-brand-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/2014\/09\/16\/lecture-bones-death-and-other-fun-stuff-with-paul-koudounaris-at-the-brand-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture: Bones, death, and other fun stuff with Paul Koudounaris at the Brand Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past decade, Dr. Paul Koudounaris has been documenting famous   macabre sites and researching our cultural relationship with death,   producing two books, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/bubble1-20\/detail\/0500251789\" target=\"_blank\">Empire of Death<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/bubble1-20\/detail\/0500251959\" target=\"_blank\">Heavenly Bodies<\/a><\/em>, which have found great acclaim and a cult following. Those books were mostly confined  to  Europe, however. His forthcoming book, <em>Memento Mori<\/em>, will be his  most  ambitious, expanding his subject matter to a global level and  presenting  little known macabre sanctuaries in Asia, Africa, and South  America. He  will give a peek at the new material tonight in a special  lecture for  the Brand Library, taking the audience on a world tour,  from burial  caves in Indonesia to gilded corpses in Taiwan to skull  festivals in  Bolivia to decorated skeletons in Germany . . . the  world&#8217;s most  spectacular macabre sites will be opened up to the  audience with a  spectacular slideshow of his own photos.<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1354\" data-postid=\"1354\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1354 themify_builder\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past decade, Dr. Paul Koudounaris has been documenting famous macabre sites and researching our cultural relationship with death, producing two books, Empire of Death and Heavenly Bodies, which have found great acclaim and a cult following. Those books were mostly confined to Europe, however. His forthcoming book, Memento Mori, will be his most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,8,13,14,21,23,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}