LEADER 04439nam 22007335 450 001 9910337736103321 005 20251010083454.0 010 $a3-030-18826-4 010 $a9783030188269 (Proquest Ebook Central) 010 $a9783030188252 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-18826-9 035 $a(CKB)4100000008527430 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-18826-9 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5811860 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008527430 100 $a20190701d2019 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDeath Across Cultures $eDeath and Dying in Non-Western Cultures /$fedited by Helaine Selin, Robert M. Rakoff 205 $a1st ed. 2019. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (XIX, 389 p. 60 illus.) 225 1 $aScience Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science,$x2215-1761 ;$v9 311 08$a3-030-18825-6 327 $aThe Evolution of Funerary Ritual in Urbanizing China -- Belief in Karma and Mok?a at the End of Life in India- Death and the Afterlife in Japan -- Return to Nature? Secularism and Politics of Death Space in Hong Kong -- Death and Dying: Belief, Fear and Ritual in Vietnamese Culture -- Negotiating Traditions and Modernity: Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore -- The Bureaucratic Professionalization of Funeral Rites in Tehran?s Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery -- Death and Burial Practices in Contemporary Zulu Culture, South Africa -- Death in Botswana: Life Among the Ashes -- Ancestors and Death: From West Africa to Southwest Europe -- Living Coffins and Death Among the Ga of Ghana -- The Yoruba of Nigeria and the Ontology of Death and Burial -- Transformation of Funeral Rituals in Togo -- Rituals Around Life and Death in Mexico; The Day of the Dead -- Continuity and Ruptures in Brazilian Funeral Rites -- The Right to a Dignified Death in Argentina -- Superstar-Saints and Wandering Souls: The Cemetery as a Cultural Hotspot in Latin American Cities -- He taonga tuku iho: Indigenous End of Life and Death Care Customs of New Zealand M?ori -- Communicating with the Dead in an Australian Aboriginal Culture: The Tiwi from Melville and Bathurst Islands -- Death and Dying in American Indian Cultures -- The Beauty of the Afterlife Among the Inuit of Nunavut -- Eternity Calling: Modernity and the Revival of Death and the Afterlife. 330 $aDeath Across Cultures: Death and Dying in Non-Western Cultures, explores death practices and beliefs, before and after death, around the non-Western world. It includes chapters on countries in Africa, Asia, South America, as well as indigenous people in Australia and North America. These chapters address changes in death rituals and beliefs, medicalization and the industry of death, and the different ways cultures mediate the impacts of modernity. Comparative studies with the west and among countries are included. This book brings together global research conducted by anthropologists, social scientists and scholars who work closely with individuals from the cultures they are writing about. 410 0$aScience Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science,$x2215-1761 ;$v9 606 $aAnthropology 606 $aGeriatrics 606 $aSocial sciences 606 $aHumanities 606 $aAging 606 $aCulture$xStudy and teaching 606 $aPolitical sociology 606 $aAnthropology 606 $aGeriatrics 606 $aHumanities and Social Sciences 606 $aAgeing 606 $aCultural Studies 606 $aPolitical Sociology 615 0$aAnthropology. 615 0$aGeriatrics. 615 0$aSocial sciences. 615 0$aHumanities. 615 0$aAging. 615 0$aCulture$xStudy and teaching. 615 0$aPolitical sociology. 615 14$aAnthropology. 615 24$aGeriatrics. 615 24$aHumanities and Social Sciences. 615 24$aAgeing. 615 24$aCultural Studies. 615 24$aPolitical Sociology. 676 $a301 676 $a301 702 $aSelin$b Helaine$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aRakoff$b Robert M$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910337736103321 996 $aDeath Across Cultures$92534125 997 $aUNINA