Ebook: Eternal Remains: World Mummification and the Beliefs that make it Necessary

Part I. Mummies in the Americas -- Mummies Preserved by Ice and Snow -- Natural Mummification in Mexico and Columbia -- Native American Mummies in the U.S. -- The Chinchorro of Peru and Chile -- The Inca -- Capacocha -- Royalty -- Indigenous Mummies in Peru -- Other Mummies in South America -- Tsantsa: The Jívaro's Shrunken Heads -- Part II. European Mummies -- The Frankenstein Mummies of Cladh Hallan -- European Bog Bodies -- The Grottarossa Girl -- Natural Mummies in Italy -- Ferentillo Mummies -- Capuchin's Catacombs (Palermo, Italy) -- The Catacombs in Rome; Christian Mummification --Incorruptibles -- The Canonization Process: How Saints are Made -- Intentional Preservation of Saints and Clergy Members -- Egyptian Influence on Christianity -- Reasons behind Christian Mummification --Part III. African Mummies -- Egyptian Mummification -- Osiris: King of Eternity -- Pre-Dynastic Mummification (4400-3100 B.C.E.) -- Intentional Mummification and Osirian Texts --The Egyptian Conception of the Soul -- New Kingdom Mummification -- Part IV. Asian Mummies -- Ancient Caucasians in China -- Miraculous Preservation in Asia -- Buddhist Mummies -- Buddhism --Tibetan Buddhist Mummification -- Other Intentionally Mummified Bodies -- Spiritual Mummification -- The Daoist Pursuit of Immortality -- Zen Preservation -- Gilded Mummies in Taiwan -- Self-Mummification -- Ascetics and the Swamp of Wizards -- Merit -- How they Mummified -- Sunada Tetsu -- Self-Immolation and Self-Mummification -- Shindo Nizaemon and Hasegawa Zenkichi --Togashi Kichihyoei -- Ono Koichiro and Ito Ihei -- Enmyokai -- Kobo Daishi and Shingon Buddhism -- Shugendo -- Bukkai -- Part V. Modern Mummies: A Timeless Practice -- A Worldwide Phenomenon -- Paying for Self-Preservation -- Preservation as Problematic -- Life and Death.