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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 February 2015
      25 October 1991
      ISBN:
      9780511803178
      9780521423755
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511803178
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      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.461kg, 258 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social and Cultural Anthropology, Religion, Anthropology, Religion: General Interest
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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.

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    "...a model of clarity. It can be read by specialist and non-specialist alike..." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

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