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| This volume brings together studies on the disposal of the dead and the archaeological research potential of found remains. Death is a subject of enduring interest in every culture in the world. The act of death itself and the rituals surrounding it vary...
Moral Theory explores some of the most historically important and currently debated moral theories about the nature of the right and good.... Margaret Alexiou's The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition, first published in 1974, has long since been established as a classic in several...
It is a classical anthropological paradox that symbols of rebirth and fertility are frequently found in funerary rituals throughout the... Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, "The Denial of Death" is Ernest Becker's brilliant and...
"Mitford's funny and unforgiving book is the best memento mori we are likely to get. It should be updated and reissued each decade for our... Although a large number of cemeteries have been explored in Roman Britain they have never been seen as central to the study of the province....
Exposing the false premise of the euthanasia movement to make a compelling case against assisted suicide, Forced Exit reveals the horrors of... Throughout the centuries, different cultures have established a variety of procedures for handling and disposing of corpses. Often the...
Examines the interface between narratives of private loss and grief in wartime and discourses structuring publicly accepted and legitimized... In early modern Europe, the circulation of visual and verbal transmissions of sati, or Hindu widowburning, not only informed responses to...
In "Death, Mourning, and Burial," an indispensable introduction to the anthropology of death, readers will find a rich selection of some of... In "Death, Mourning, and Burial," an indispensable introduction to the anthropology of death, readers will find a rich selection of some of...
Building on ethnographic fieldwork and extensive historical evidence, "Crying Shame" analyzes lament across thousands of years and nearly... This book will take the reader through a spiritual quest.
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