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Dying to Eat : Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death, and the Afterlife /
Food has played a major role in funerary and memorial practices since the dawn of the human race. In the ancient Roman world, for example, it was common practice to build channels from the tops of graves into the crypts themselves, and mourners would regularly pour offerings of food and drink into t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2018
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| Colección: | Material worlds.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Starters : the role of food in bereavement and memorialization / Candi K. Cann
- part 1. Dining with the dead
- 1. Chinese ancestral worship : food to sustain, transform, and heal the dead and the living / Emily S. Wu
- 2. The eating ritual in Korean religiosity : Young San Jae for the dead and for the living / Jung Eun Sophia Park
- 3. Sweetening death : shifting landscapes of the role of food in grief and mourning / Candi K. Cann
- part 2. Eating after : food and drink in bereavement and remembrance
- 4. Funeral food as resurrection in the American South / Joshua Graham
- 5. The circle of life : memorializing and sustaining faith / Lacy K. Crocker and Gordon Fuller
- 6. Moroccan funeral feasts / David Oualaalou
- 7. Alcohol consumption, transgression, and death / Christa Shusko
- 8. Eating and drinking with the dead in South Africa / Radikobo Ntsimane.