Death Across Cultures Death and Dying in Non-Western Cultures /

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 America. These chapters ad...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Selin, Helaine (Editor), Rakoff, Robert M. (Editor)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : 2019.
Imprint: Springer,
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science, 9
Subjects:
Anthropology.
Geriatrics.
Social sciences.
Humanities.
Aging.
Culture > Study and teaching.
Political sociology.
Humanities and Social Sciences.
Ageing.
Cultural Studies.
Political Sociology.
Online Access:Full-text access
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Summary: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 America. These chapters address changes in death rituals and beliefs, medicalization and the industry of death, and the different ways cultures mediate the impacts of modernity. Comparative studies with the west and among countries are included. This book brings together global research conducted by anthropologists, social scientists and scholars who work closely with individuals from the cultures they are writing about.
Physical Description:XIX, 389 p. 60 illus. online resource.
ISBN:9783030188269
ISSN:2215-1761 ;
DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-18826-9

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