Death Across Cultures

Download or Read eBook Death Across Cultures PDF written by Helaine Selin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Death Across Cultures
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 396
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ISBN-10 : 9783030188269
ISBN-13 : 3030188264
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Book Synopsis Death Across Cultures by : Helaine Selin

Book excerpt: 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.


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