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  title info:
    title: Death Across Cultures
    sub title: Death and Dying in Non-Western Cultures
  name:
    name part: Selin, Helaine.
    role:
      role term: editor.
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      role term: edt
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  name:
    name part: Rakoff, Robert M.
    role:
      role term: editor.
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      role term: edt
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIX, 389 p. 60 illus. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: The Evolution of Funerary Ritual in Urbanizing China -- Belief in Karma and Mokṣa at the End of Life in India- Death and the Afterlife in Japan -- Return to Nature? Secularism and Politics of Death Space in Hong Kong -- Death and Dying: Belief, Fear and Ritual in Vietnamese Culture -- Negotiating Traditions and Modernity: Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore -- The Bureaucratic Professionalization of Funeral Rites in Tehran's Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery -- Death and Burial Practices in Contemporary Zulu Culture, South Africa -- Death in Botswana: Life Among the Ashes -- Ancestors and Death: From West Africa to Southwest Europe -- Living Coffins and Death Among the Ga of Ghana -- The Yoruba of Nigeria and the Ontology of Death and Burial -- Transformation of Funeral Rituals in Togo -- Rituals Around Life and Death in Mexico; The Day of the Dead -- Continuity and Ruptures in Brazilian Funeral Rites -- The Right to a Dignified Death in Argentina -- Superstar-Saints and Wandering Souls: The Cemetery as a Cultural Hotspot in Latin American Cities -- He taonga tuku iho: Indigenous End of Life and Death Care Customs of New Zealand Māori -- Communicating with the Dead in an Australian Aboriginal Culture: The Tiwi from Melville and Bathurst Islands -- Death and Dying in American Indian Cultures -- The Beauty of the Afterlife Among the Inuit of Nunavut -- Eternity Calling: Modernity and the Revival of Death and the Afterlife.
  note: edited by Helaine Selin, Robert M. Rakoff.
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Geriatrics
  subject:
    topic: Aging
  subject:
    topic: Cultural studies
  subject:
    topic: Area studies
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Geriatrics/Gerontology
  subject:
    topic: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary
  subject:
    topic: Aging
  subject:
    topic: Cultural Studies
  subject:
    topic: Area Studies
  classification: HM545
  classification: 301
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science, 9
  identifier: 9783030188269
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18826-9
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    record creation date: 190701
    record change date: 20191023132336.0
    record identifier: 978-3-030-18826-9