Women, pain, and death : rituals and everyday life on the margins of Europe and beyond /
""Women, Pain and Death: Rituals and Everyday-Life on the Margins of Europe and Beyond"" is a cross-cultural and multidisciplinary collection of articles representing different perspectives and topics related to the general theme Women and Death from differ
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon tyne, UK :
Cambridge Scholars,
2008.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Death and the maiden : sex, death, and women's laments / Gail Holst-Warhaft
- Greek women and death, ancient and modern : a comparative analysis / Evy Johanne Håland
- "Let the earth be light upon you" : remembering the dead in a meadow Mari village / Helena Ruotsala
- Symbols of approaching death : the role of the woman / Tatiana Minniyakhmetova
- Symbolic and social roles of women in death ritual in traditional Irish society / Jenny Butler
- Women and death in old Norse societies : an archaeological perspective / Liv Helga Dommasnes
- Between reverence and fear : Jewish women and death in medieval and early modern Ashkenaz / Alexandra Cuffel
- Brittle images, lingering pasts : photographs, memories and bereavement / Nefissa Naguib
- Metaphors kill, don't they? Breast cancer and fear of death in Slovene medical metaphors / Mojca Ramšak
- The sisters Kali and Ganga : waters of life and death / Terje Oestigaard.