Death, mourning, and burial : a cross-cultural reader / edited by Antonius C.G.M. Robben.
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TextPublication details: Malden, Mass. ; Oxford : Blackwell, 2004.Description: x, 322 p. ; 25 cmISBN: - 9781405114714:
- 9781405114707:
- 1405114711
- 1405114703
- 9781405114707
- Mourning Customs - Cross-cultural Studies
- Death - Social Aspects - Cross-cultural Studies
- Funeral Rites And Ceremonies - Cross-cultural Studies
- Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Cross-cultural studies
- Mourning customs -- Cross-cultural studies
- Death -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies
- Family and Relationships
- Cultural studies: customs & traditions
- Anthropology
- Psychology
- Sociology: family & relationships
- Sociology & anthropology
- 393
- .D43 2004
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| General Lending | Carlow Campus Library General Lending | 393 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 81874 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
[Part 1: Conceptualizations of death] Magic, science and religion -- The terror of death -- Symbolic immortality -- The hour of our death -- How others die: reflections on the anthropology of death.
[Part 2: Death and dying] Death omens in a Breton memorate -- The meaning of death in Northern Cheyenne culture -- Kinds of death and the house -- Displacing suffering: the reconstruction of death in North America and Japan.
[Part 3: Uncommon death] Witchcraft, oracles and magic among the Azande -- Burial alive -- State terror in the Netherworld: disappearance and reburial in Argentina.
[Part 4: Grief and mourning] The Andaman Islanders -- Metaphors of mediation in Greek funeral laments -- Grief and a headhunter's rage -- Death without weeping.
[Part 5: Mortuary rituals] A contribution to the study of the collective representation of death -- The rites of passage -- The phase of negated death -- "Thus are our bodies, thus was our custom": mortuary cannibalism in an Amazonian society.
[Part 6: Remembrance and regeneration] Sacrificial death and the necrophagous ascetic -- The nineteenth-century Tlingit potlatch: a new perspective -- Dead bodies animate the study of politics.
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