Ritual In Death - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ritual In Death write by J. D. Robb. This book was released on 2014-06-24. Ritual In Death available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Celebrations of Death
Celebrations of Death - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Celebrations of Death write by Peter Metcalf. This book was released on 1991-10-25. Celebrations of Death available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Machine derived contents note: List of illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction to the second edition -- 1. Preliminaries -- Part I. Universals and Culture: 2. Emotional reactions to death -- 3. Symbolic associations of death -- Part II. Death as Transition: 4. The living and the dead: a re-examination of Hertz -- 5. Death rituals and life values: rites of passage reconsidered -- Part III. The Royal Corpse and the Body Politic: 6. The dead king -- 7. The immortal kingship -- Part IV. Seeing Ourselves Anew: 8. American deathways -- Bibliography -- Index.
Days of Death, Days of Life
Days of Death, Days of Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Days of Death, Days of Life write by Kristin Norget. This book was released on 2005-12-13. Days of Death, Days of Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kristin Norget explores the practice and meanings of death rituals in poor urban neighborhoods on the outskirts of the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca. Drawing on her extensive fieldwork in Oaxaca City, Norget provides vivid descriptions of the Day of the Dead and other popular religious practices. She analyzes how the rites and beliefs associated with death shape and reflect poor Oaxacans' values and social identity. Norget also considers the intimate relationship that is perceived to exist between the living and the dead in Oaxacan popular culture. She argues that popular death rituals, which lie largely outside the sanctioned practices of the Catholic Church, establish and reinforce an ethical view of the world in which the dead remain with the living and in which the poor (as opposed to the privileged classes) do right by one another and their dead. For poor Oaxacans, these rituals affirm a set of social beliefs and practices, based on fairness, egalitarianism, and inclusiveness.
Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China
Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China write by James L. Watson. This book was released on 1988. Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the late imperial era (1500-1911), China, though divided by ethnic, linguistic, and regional differences at least as great as those prevailing in Europe, enjoyed a remarkable solidarity. What held Chinese society together for so many centuries? Some scholars have pointed to the institutional control over the written word as instrumental in promoting cultural homogenization; others, the manipulation of the performing arts. This volume, comprised of essays by both anthropologists and historians, furthers this important discussion by examining the role of death rituals in the unification of Chinese culture.
Death, Ritual, and Belief
Death, Ritual, and Belief - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death, Ritual, and Belief write by Douglas Davies. This book was released on 2002-06-01. Death, Ritual, and Belief available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Describing a great variety of funeral ritual from major world religions and from local traditions, this book shows how cultures not only cope with corpses but also create an added value for living through the encouragement of afterlife beliefs. The explosion of interest in death in recent years reflects the key theme of this book - the rhetoric of death - the way cultures use the most potent weapon of words to bring new power to life. This new edition is one third longer than the original with new material on the death of Jesus, the most theorized death ever which offers a useful case study for students. There is also empirical material from contemporary/recent events such as the death of Diana and an expanded section on theories of grief which will make the book more attractive to death counsellors.
