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Autore |
Kelly Suzanne <1969-> |
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Titolo |
Greening death : reclaiming burial practices and restoring our tie to the earth / / Suzanne Kelly |
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Lanham, [Maryland] : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (215 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Burial - Environmental aspects - United States |
Funeral rites and ceremonies - Environmental aspects - United States |
Environmental responsibility |
Human ecology |
Nature - Effect of human beings on |
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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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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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