Death Across Cultures: Death and Dying in Non-Western Cultures, explores death practices and beliefs, before and after death, around the non-Western world. It includes chapters on countries in Africa, Asia, South America, as well as indigenous people in Australia and North Ameri…
Death Across Cultures: Death and Dying in Non-Western Cultures, explores death practices and beliefs, before and after death, around the non-Western world. It includes chapters on countries in Africa, Asia, South America, as well as indigenous people in Australia and North Ameri…
by Muecke, Stephen, Despret, Vinciane
fromPosthumanities
"Vinciane Despret's unique storytelling, woven with ethnography and family history, assembles accounts of those living their daily lives with their dead"--
by Despret, Vinciane, Despret, Vinciane
fromPosthumanities
"Vinciane Despret's unique storytelling, woven with ethnography and family history, assembles accounts of those living their daily lives with their dead"--
"Vinciane Despret's unique storytelling, woven with ethnography and family history, assembles accounts of those living their daily lives with their dead"--
"Human beings are grieving animals and consolation, an attempt to assuage grief, is an age-old response to loss, expressed variously in different cultural contexts. However, over the course of the past century, consolation has dropped off the West's cultural radar. The contribut…
Human beings are grieving animals and consolation, an attempt to assuage grief, is an age-old response to loss, expressed variously in different cultural contexts. However, over the course of the past century, consolation has dropped off the West's cultural radar. The contributi…
"Human beings are grieving animals and consolation, an attempt to assuage grief, is an age-old response to loss, expressed variously in different cultural contexts. However, over the course of the past century, consolation has dropped off the West's cultural radar. The contribut…
And tentative conclusionReferences; 4. The crematorium as a ritual and musical consolationscape; Introduction; Music and the cremation ritual; Interference of places: Building, ritual and music; Music and consolation; Crematorium, music and consolation; Consolationscape; Referen…
"There is perhaps no object as uncanny as the corpse--or more subject to elaborate taboos--and few topics yield as much cross-cultural anxiety as human mortality. Yet beliefs and practices around death never stand still. The New Death brings together scholars who are intrigued…
When her daughter's fiance died suddenly, Katherine Ashenburg was surprised to see how her daughter intuitively re-created the traditional rituals of mourning, even those of which she was ignorant. Intrigued, Ashenburg began to explore the rich and endlessly inventive choreograp…
