Death Across Cultures Death and Dying in Non-Western Cultures
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2019, 2019
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2019 |
| Series: | Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
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