ABSTRACT
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Toward the later stages of his life, the French historian Philippe Ariès wrote on the great themes of sex and death. In ARIES (1974) and ARIES (1981) he opens the topic of death to careful social historical investigation. He shows how, in the 11th century, death became centred on the self, rather than seen in terms of its impact on the community. In the 16th century the concern about death became a concern about one’s family. In the 19th century it was seen as a point on the path to the world hereafter and, in the 20th century, death is presented as something hidden from our everyday lives. In writing such a history Ariès puts into discourse that which is often silent.
