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Autore |
Hoy William G. |
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Titolo |
Do funerals matter? : the purposes and practices of death rituals in global perspective / / William G. Hoy |
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New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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ISBN |
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0-203-07274-X |
1-299-28002-1 |
1-135-10082-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (225 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Funeral rites and ceremonies |
Burial |
Human remains (Archaeology) |
Death - Social aspects |
Group identity |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Do Funerals Matter?: The Purposes and Practices of Death Rituals in Global Perspective; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Funerals-Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going; 2 More Treasured than Words: The Anchor of Significant Symbols; 3 Getting Everybody Together: The Anchor of Gathered Community; 4 Walk Out What You Can't Talk Out: The Anchor of Ritual Action; 5 Looking Back to Look Forward: The Anchor of Cultural Heritage; 6 Taking the Dead to the Party: The Anchor of the Body's Presence; 7 North American Quests to Personalize Funeral Rituals |
8 The Business of Funerals9 Clinical Perspectives on the Value of Funerals; 10 Farther Down the Road: Using Ritual in Grief Counseling; Epilogue; Glossary: What Does that Mean?; References; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Do Funerals Matter? is a creative interweaving of historical, sociocultural, and research-based perspectives on death rituals, drawing from myriad sources to create a picture of what death rituals |
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have been; and where, especially in the Western world, they are going. Death educators, researchers, counselors, clergy, funeral-service professionals, and others will appreciate the book's theory- and research-based approach to the ways in which different cultural groups memorialize their dead. They will also find clear clinical and practical applications in the author's exploration of t |
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