Representations of death : a social psychological perspective /

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Drawing upon a rare and highly original ethnography of mortuary practices in the 1990s, this book takes the reader through the medical, bureaucratic, commercial and ritual aspects of death.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bradbury, Mary, 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Routledge, 1999.
Subjects:
Death.
Undertakers and undertaking.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Bereavement.
Death > Psychological aspects.
Attitude to Death
Funeral Rites
Death
Bereavement
Mort.
Funérailles > Rites et cérémonies.
Deuil.
Mort > Aspect psychologique.
deaths.
funerals.
mourning.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Death & Dying.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Death, Grief, Bereavement.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The study of death : a social psychological approach
  • 2. Researching death : an urban ethnography
  • 3. Medicine and bureaucracy
  • 4. Commerce and ritual
  • 5. The body
  • 6. Social representations of death
  • 7. Social representations of loss
  • 8. Re-presenting death.

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