Death Across Cultures
Death and Dying in Non-Western Cultures
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Beschreibung
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.
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.
Cross-cultural perspectives Accessible but based on current scholarship Deals with the period before death and not just with death and funerals
Autor*in
Helaine Selin
Themen in »Death Across Cultures«
Death and Cultures Dying in Non-Western Cultures Mourning in Non-Western Cultures Burial in Non-Western Cultures Funerals in Cultures Indigenous People and Death Death Industry Animism Alaskan natives Medicalization Good death Native Hawaiian American Indians Fear of death and dying Dignity in death