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| € 19.07 Why did the Egyptians try to preserve their dead for eternity? How did they succeed? Carol Andrews answers these questions in a fully... € 12.86 € 10.93 Most Musical Of Mourners, Weep Again! Lament Anew, Urania! He Died, Who Was The Sire Of An Immortal Strain, Blind, Old And Lonely, When His...
€ 170.70 Through a cultural analysis of the symbols of death - flesh, blood, bones, souls, time numbers, food and money - Chinese Death Rituals in... € 34.32 Response to Death presents a literary historical perspective on mourning, tracing examples of mourning in literary works from the medieval...
€ 104.04 Delves into the psychology of death, not just in terms of bereavement and loss, but also in terms of the role it plays in fantasies, ghastly... € 133.73 A comprehensive analysis of the ritual dimensions of biblical mourning rites, this book also seeks to illuminate mourning's social...
€ 24.35 A review of the history, the practice, and the industry of this increasingly common, yet still controversial, alternative to burial. € 67.96 In this comprehensive handbook, Charles Corr and David Balk improve our understanding of the challenges faced by adolescents when coping...
€ 22.54 This book considers the supreme importance the practice of burial has to Western civilization, exploring the many places where the dead... € 10.08 Whether people have a right to control their own death has become a topic of increasing interest to everyone involved - governments that try...
€ 422.69 Dying is a social as well as physiological phenomenon. Each society characterizes and, consequently, treats death and dying in its own... € 40.84 Death came early and often to the people of Tokugawa Japan, as it did to the rest of the pre-modern world. Yet the Japanese reaction to...
€ 13.77 € 11.70 Like all great & important reforms which aim at the abolishment of a custom as old & revered as the custom is of burying the dead,... € 26.33 € 22.38 Miss Bendann's book is what it purports to be: an analytical study of burial rites. With commendable courage, the author launches into a...
€ 58.60 People increasingly look to rituals after a disaster. A silent procession and a memorial service are carefully and observantly organised,... € 73.57 Originally published in Brazil in 1993, this award-winning book explores the traditions and beliefs--African, Portuguese, and...
€ 33.60 This award-winning social history of death and funeral rites during the early decades of Brazil's independence from Portugal focuses on the... € 23.79 € 20.22 Particularly those of London, with a concise history of the modes of interment among different nations from the earliest periods, and a...
€ 27.33 € 23.23 This book is a translation from the German edition of Das Ewige Antlitz. Death masks command our utmost reverence, for the face is symbolic... € 19.23 € 16.35 The old Masonic burying ground, Fredericksburg, Virginia. These are the days when commendable effort is being made to throw the searchlight...
€ 23.61 € 20.07 Contents: epitaphs on tradesmen; typographical epitaphs; good and faithful servants; epitaphs on soldiers and sailors; epitaphs on musicians... € 72.56 "Bonnie Effros has written a succinct cultural history of early medieval archaeology from medieval relic translations to contemporary...
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