Death Across Cultures: Death and Dying in Non-Western Cultures (1st ed. 2019) (Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science #9)

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
2019

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Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9783030188269
Related ISBNs:
9783030188252
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing
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Copyrighted By:
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Science, Social Studies, Medicine, Sociology
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Helaine Selin
Edited by:
Robert M. Rakoff

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