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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Müşterek Yazar: SpringerLink (Online service)
Diğer Yazarlar: Selin, Helaine (Editör), Rakoff, Robert M. (Editör)
Materyal Türü: e-Kitap
Dil:İngilizce
Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Cham : Springer International Publishing : 2019.
Imprint: Springer,
Edisyon:1st ed. 2019.
Seri Bilgileri:Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science, 9
Konular:
Anthropology.
Geriatrics.
Social sciences.
Humanities.
Aging.
Culture > Study and teaching.
Political sociology.
Humanities and Social Sciences.
Ageing.
Cultural Studies.
Political Sociology.
Online Erişim:Full-text access
İçindekiler:
  • The Evolution of Funerary Ritual in Urbanizing China
  • Belief in Karma and Mokṣa at the End of Life in India- Death and the Afterlife in Japan
  • Return to Nature? Secularism and Politics of Death Space in Hong Kong
  • Death and Dying: Belief, Fear and Ritual in Vietnamese Culture
  • Negotiating Traditions and Modernity: Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore
  • The Bureaucratic Professionalization of Funeral Rites in Tehran's Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery
  • Death and Burial Practices in Contemporary Zulu Culture, South Africa
  • Death in Botswana: Life Among the Ashes
  • Ancestors and Death: From West Africa to Southwest Europe
  • Living Coffins and Death Among the Ga of Ghana
  • The Yoruba of Nigeria and the Ontology of Death and Burial
  • Transformation of Funeral Rituals in Togo
  • Rituals Around Life and Death in Mexico; The Day of the Dead
  • Continuity and Ruptures in Brazilian Funeral Rites
  • The Right to a Dignified Death in Argentina
  • Superstar-Saints and Wandering Souls: The Cemetery as a Cultural Hotspot in Latin American Cities
  • He taonga tuku iho: Indigenous End of Life and Death Care Customs of New Zealand Māori
  • Communicating with the Dead in an Australian Aboriginal Culture: The Tiwi from Melville and Bathurst Islands
  • Death and Dying in American Indian Cultures
  • The Beauty of the Afterlife Among the Inuit of Nunavut
  • Eternity Calling: Modernity and the Revival of Death and the Afterlife.

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