Ultimate ambiguities: investigating death and liminality

by Berger, Peter Kroesen, Justin

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Title Statements

Full title :Ultimate ambiguities : investigating death and liminality / edited by Peter Berger and Justin Kroesen.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2016
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Berghahn Books
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2016

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (x, 278 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781782386100, 1782386106
oclc:ocn935494896
LC Classification:BD444
Dewey Decimal:306.9

Ambiguous Mortal Remains, Substitute Bodies, and other Materializations of the Dead among the Garo of Northeast India / Erik de Maaker -- Structures and Processes of Liminality : The Shape of Mourning among the Sora of Tribal India / Piers Vitebsky -- Liminal Bodies, Liminal Food : Hindu and Tribal Death Rituals Compared / Peter Berger -- The Liminality of "Living Martyrdom" : Suicide Bombers' Preparations for Paradise / Pieter Nanninga -- Disappearance and Liminality : Argentina's Mourning of State Terror / Antonius C.G.M. Robben -- Three Dimensions of Liminality in the Context of Kyrgyz Death Rituals / Roland Hardenberg -- Death, Ritual, and Effervescence / Peter Berger -- Hungry Ghost or Divine Soul? : Post-Mortem Initiation in Medieval Shaiva Tantric Death Rites / Nina Mirnig -- Between Death and Judgement : Sleep as the Image of Death in Early Modern Protestantism / Justin E.A. Kroesen and Jan R. Luth -- Body and Soul Between Death and Funeral in Archaic Greece / Jan N. Bremmer -- Death, Memory and Liminality : Rethinking Lampedusa's Later Life as Author and Aristocrat / Yme B. Kuiper.

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Case studies Death -- Case studies. -- Religious asp… Death -- Case studies. -- Social aspects Death -- Religious aspects Death -- Social aspects Funérailles -- Études de cas. -- Rites … Funeral rites and ceremonies Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Case st… Liminalité -- Études de cas Liminality Liminality -- Case studies Mort -- Études de cas. -- Aspect religi… Mort -- Études de cas. -- Aspect social POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture