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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797541803321

Autore

Kelly Suzanne <1969->

Titolo

Greening death : reclaiming burial practices and restoring our tie to the earth / / Suzanne Kelly

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, [Maryland] : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4422-4157-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 p.)

Disciplina

393/.1

Soggetti

Burial - Environmental aspects - United States

Funeral rites and ceremonies - Environmental aspects - United States

Environmental responsibility

Human ecology

Nature - Effect of human beings on

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Waking Up; PART I; Chapter 1. Apart from Nature; Chapter 2. Dead Bodies That Matter; Chapter 3. Wrath of the Corpse; PART II; Chapter 4. Reclaiming Knowledge; Chapter 5. Renewing Meaning; Chapter 6. Restoring Our Relationship to the Land; Chapter 7. Obstacles and Other Challenges; Chapter 8. Mobilizing the Ethic; Epilogue: Heeding the Light, "Feeding the Green"; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Over the last fifteen years, people have been slowly waking up to the toxic and alienating practices that have come to make up the American Way of Death. Greening Death explores this awakening, arguing that beyond the greener and more cost-efficient practices of the Green Burial Movement lies an even greater promise-tying us back to the earth.