Celebrations of Death
The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual
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Product details:
- Edition number 2, Revised
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 25 October 1991
- ISBN 9780521423755
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages258 pages
- Size 232x157x22 mm
- Weight 461 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 18 b/w illus. 0
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Short description:
This revised edition of a cross-cultural study of rituals surrounding death has become a standard text in anthropology, sociology and religion.
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This revised edition of a cross-cultural study of rituals surrounding death has become a standard text in anthropology, sociology and religion. Part of its fascination is that in understanding other people's death rituals we are able to gain a better understanding of our own. The authors refer to a wide variety of examples, from different continents and epochs. They compare the great tombs of the Berawan of Borneo and the pyramids of Egypt, as well as the dramas of medieval French royal funerals and the burial alive of the Dinka 'masters of the spear' in the Sudan, and other rituals which at first sight seem to have little in common. Many of these cases are anthropological classics, but the authors place them in an alternative context, so as to shape a novel synthesis on the anthropology of death ritual. A fresh introduction reviews theoretical developments in the field since the book first appeared in 1979.
"...a model of clarity. It can be read by specialist and non-specialist alike..." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
Table of Contents:
List of illustrations; Preface; Introduction to the second edition; 1. Preliminaries; Part I. Universals and Culture: 2. Emotional reactions to death; 3. Symbolic associations of death; Part II. Death as Transition: 4. The living and the dead: a re-examination of Hertz; 5. Death rituals and life values: rites of passage reconsidered; Part III. The Royal Corpse and the Body Politic: 6. The dead king; 7. The immortal kingship; Part IV. Seeing Ourselves Anew: 8. American deathways; Bibliography; Index.
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