Death Across Cultures Death and Dying in Non-Western Cultures /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Selin, Helaine (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Rakoff, Robert M. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science, 9
• Subjects: Anthropology.; Geriatrics.; Aging.; Cultural studies.; Area studies.; Geriatrics/Gerontology.; Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary.; Cultural Studies.; Area Studies.

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 ad...