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The blood of strangers [[electronic resource] ] : stories from emergency medicine / / Frank Huyler
| The blood of strangers [[electronic resource] ] : stories from emergency medicine / / Frank Huyler |
| Autore | Huyler Frank <1964-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1999 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (165 p.) |
| Disciplina | 616.02/5 |
| Soggetto topico |
Emergency medicine
Hospitals - Emergency services |
| Soggetto non controllato |
accidents
anthology blood career collection of stories disease emergency medicine emergency rooms emotional er physicians fast paced firsthand accounts healthcare human struggles illness injury life and death literary nonfiction lyrical essays medical professionals medical world memoirs modern medicine neurosurgeons new mexico nonfiction stories patients and doctors retrospective trauma surgeons vignettes visceral |
| ISBN |
0-585-46784-6
1-283-29193-2 9786613291936 0-520-95072-0 0-520-90003-0 1-59734-502-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- The Unknown Assailant -- Prelude -- Through The Dark, Softly -- Faith -- Black Bag -- A Good Scar -- The Engineer In The Desert -- The Invitation -- Sunday Morning -- The Short Arm Of Chromosome 4 -- Needle -- The Dead Lake -- The Prisoner -- Numbers And Voices -- A Difference Of Opinion -- The Bleeding Girl -- I ' M Driving -- Burn -- The Secret -- Speaking In Tongues -- Power -- Jaw -- The Virgin -- Sugar -- Liar -- The Bee Sting -- The House In The Wilderness -- Time |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780374603321 |
Huyler Frank <1964->
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1999 | ||
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The collected poems of Robert Creeley [[electronic resource]]
| The collected poems of Robert Creeley [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Creeley Robert <1926-2005.> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (683 p.) |
| Disciplina | 811/.54 |
| Soggetto topico | American poetry - 20th century |
| Soggetto non controllato |
20th century american literature
20th century american poetry avant garde poetry black mountain poetry black mountain poets complex counter tradition echoes engaging hello a journal if i were writing this later life and death memory gardens mirrors on earth page turner poems poetry collection poetry postmodern poetry postmodernism postmodernity projectivist poets unpublished poems windows |
| ISBN |
1-282-77232-5
9786612772320 0-520-94167-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Note -- Preface: Old Poetry -- Author's Note -- Hello: A Journal, February 29-May 3, 1976 -- Later -- Mirrors -- Memory Gardens -- Windows -- Echoes -- Life & Death -- If I Were Writing This -- On Earth -- Unpublished Poems -- Credits -- Index Of Titles And First Lines |
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Creeley Robert <1926-2005.>
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006 | ||
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Death in a Church of Life : Moral Passion during Botswana's Time of AIDS / / Frederick Klaits
| Death in a Church of Life : Moral Passion during Botswana's Time of AIDS / / Frederick Klaits |
| Autore | Klaits Frederick |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2010] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (369 p.) |
| Disciplina | 261.8/3219697920096883 |
| Collana | The Anthropology of Christianity |
| Soggetto topico |
AIDS (Disease) - Patients - Pastoral counseling of - Botswana
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Pastoral counseling of -- Botswana AIDS (Disease) - Religious aspects - Christianity AIDS (Disease) -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Church work with the sick - Botswana AIDS (Disease) - Christianity - Religious aspects - Botswana Church work with the sick Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome HIV Infections Pastoral Care Religion and Medicine Social Support Christianity Religion and Psychology Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes Religion Social Environment Lentivirus Infections Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral Slow Virus Diseases Counseling Virus Diseases Retroviridae Infections Sociology Humanities Sexually Transmitted Diseases Immune System Diseases Psychology, Applied RNA Virus Infections Diseases Social Sciences Philosophy & Religion |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Ethnography |
| Soggetto non controllato |
aids crisis
aids anthropology sociology anthropology apostolic congregation baitshepi church botswana christian faith christian nonfiction christianity church discussion books ethnographers ethnography faith and religion fellowship fieldwork hiv human relationships hymns illness and death life and death modern history moral passion power of god power of prayer prayer preaching spiritual kinship spirituality and faith therapeutic substances |
| ISBN |
1-282-45344-0
9786612453441 0-520-94584-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Pronunciation and Orthography -- Introduction: Moral Passion in Suffering and Faith -- One. Whose Child? -- Two. "Go with Me to Babylon" . The Domestication of Inequality -- Three. "Cleansing the Spirit". The Bodiliness of Sentiment and Faith -- Four. "Spirit, Follow the Voice!". Voice and the Making of Intersubjectivities -- Five. "It Is All Right as Long as We Feel Sorrow". Care for and by the Dying -- Six. "You Must Not Look Back". Civility in the Place of Death -- Conclusion. Putting Love into Words -- Appendix One -- Appendix Two -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780920503321 |
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Klaits Frederick
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| Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2010] | ||
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Disease change and the role of medicine : the Navajo experience / / Stephen J. Kunitz
| Disease change and the role of medicine : the Navajo experience / / Stephen J. Kunitz |
| Autore | Kunitz Stephen J |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1983 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (238 pages) |
| Disciplina | 362.1/08997 |
| Collana | Comparative studies of health systems and medical care |
| Soggetto topico |
Navajo Indians - Diseases
Navajo Indians - Mortality Navajo Indians - Medical care Navajo Indians - Medicine Indians of North America - Diseases - Southwest, New Indians of North America - Mortality - Southwest, New Indians of North America - Medical care - Southwest, New Indians of North America - Medicine - Southwest, New |
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academic
american indian career demographics disease doctors economy fertility health and wellness health care health issues health professionals indian reservation indigenous people life and death medical experts medical field medical medicinal mortality native american navajo reservation navajo physicians policy making public policy reservation life reservation scholarly social science social scientists social studies |
| ISBN |
1-282-35559-7
0-520-90964-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Mortality, Fertility and Social Organization -- 2. Economic and Demographic Change on the Navajo Reservation -- 3. Disease Patterns on the Navajo Reservation -- 4. Traditional Navajo Health Beliefs and Practices (by Jerrold E. Levy) -- 5. Health Care Utilization (with Helena Temkin-Greener) -- 6. Changing Mortality and the Role of Medicine -- Appendix I: Data and Methods -- APPENDIX II -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777954703321 |
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Kunitz Stephen J
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1983 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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I did it to save my life [[electronic resource] ] : love and survival in Sierra Leone / / Catherine E. Bolten
| I did it to save my life [[electronic resource] ] : love and survival in Sierra Leone / / Catherine E. Bolten |
| Autore | Bolten Catherine E (Catherine Elizabeth), <1976-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (293 p.) |
| Disciplina | 966.4044 |
| Collana | California series in public anthropology |
| Soggetto topico | War and society - Sierra Leone |
| Soggetto non controllato |
africa
anthropologists anthropology civilians cultural memory ethnographies evangelists fathers government human impact life and death makeni militants military history modern history nonfiction accounts overcoming trauma personal stories political politicians power of love rebel forces rebels sierra leone sierra leoneans social justice social world soldiers students survival traders traumatic experiences true stories violence wartime experiences |
| ISBN |
1-282-13419-1
9786613806772 0-520-95353-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Sierra Leonean emotions, Sierra Leonean war -- Understanding Makeni and nested loyalties: marginality and collaboration in the northern capital -- "I must be grateful to them for freeing me": the soldier -- "They said nobody would hide from this war": the rebel -- "I held a gun but I did not fire it": the student -- The government brought death, the rebels allowed us to live": the trader -- "It was the Lord who wanted me to stay": the evangelist -- "They really damaged me": the father -- "The RUF thought I was on their side": the politician -- Epilogue and conclusions: Makeni, May 2010. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779222503321 |
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Bolten Catherine E (Catherine Elizabeth), <1976->
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2012 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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In pursuit of the good life : aspiration and suicide in globalizing South India / / Jocelyn Lim Chua
| In pursuit of the good life : aspiration and suicide in globalizing South India / / Jocelyn Lim Chua |
| Autore | Chua Jocelyn Lim |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (255 p.) |
| Disciplina | 362.280954/83 |
| Soggetto topico |
Suicide - Social aspects - India - Kerala
East Indians - India - Kerala - Psychology East Indians - India - Kerala - Social conditions |
| Soggetto non controllato |
anthropologists
asia scholars asian studies critical theory cultural anthropology ethnographers ethnography everyday life fieldwork global change globalization high suicide rates historical struggles human condition kerala life and death modern history modern india modernization nonfiction postcolonial world psychology retrospective social anxiety social aspirations social change social development social historians social history south india suicide tragic |
| ISBN | 0-520-95764-4 |
| Classificazione | SOC002010SOC002000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note -- Introduction -- 1. Between the Devil and the Deep Sea -- 2. Gazing at the Stars, Aiming for the Treetops -- 3. Tales the Dead Are Made to Tell -- 4. Care-full Acts -- 5. Anywhere but Here -- 6. Fit for the Future -- Afterword -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787604203321 |
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Chua Jocelyn Lim
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| Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 | ||
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In pursuit of the good life : aspiration and suicide in globalizing South India / / Jocelyn Lim Chua
| In pursuit of the good life : aspiration and suicide in globalizing South India / / Jocelyn Lim Chua |
| Autore | Chua Jocelyn Lim |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (255 p.) |
| Disciplina | 362.280954/83 |
| Soggetto topico |
Suicide - Social aspects - India - Kerala
East Indians - India - Kerala - Psychology East Indians - India - Kerala - Social conditions |
| Soggetto non controllato |
anthropologists
asia scholars asian studies critical theory cultural anthropology ethnographers ethnography everyday life fieldwork global change globalization high suicide rates historical struggles human condition kerala life and death modern history modern india modernization nonfiction postcolonial world psychology retrospective social anxiety social aspirations social change social development social historians social history south india suicide tragic |
| ISBN | 0-520-95764-4 |
| Classificazione | SOC002010SOC002000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note -- Introduction -- 1. Between the Devil and the Deep Sea -- 2. Gazing at the Stars, Aiming for the Treetops -- 3. Tales the Dead Are Made to Tell -- 4. Care-full Acts -- 5. Anywhere but Here -- 6. Fit for the Future -- Afterword -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815414903321 |
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Chua Jocelyn Lim
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| Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Living and dying in the contemporary world : a compendium / / Veena Das and Clara Han, editors
| Living and dying in the contemporary world : a compendium / / Veena Das and Clara Han, editors |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (891 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306 |
| Soggetto topico |
Social history - 21st century
Life Death |
| Soggetto non controllato |
anthropology
contemporary health care cross cultural studies death and dying death studies disability studies global health global maternal death health science hiv aids infant mortality international adoption life and death living and dying maternal mortality medical anthropology mental health miscarriage race and healthcare religious healing reproductive rights social history sociology stem cell technology tb tuberculosis transnational adoption |
| ISBN | 0-520-96106-4 |
| Classificazione | LC 56000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Living and Dying in the Contemporary World -- Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Concept Note -- Section 1. Natality, Sexuality, Reproduction -- 1. Maternal Mortality, Technological Innovations, and Therapeutic Strategies -- 2. Conceiving Life and Death: Stem Cell Technologies and Assisted Conception in India and the Middle East -- 3. The Pregnant Hijra: Laughter, Dead Babies, and Invaluable Love -- 4. New Lives for Children: Adoption Documents and the Law in Central Mexico -- 5. Transnational Adoption and (Im)possible Lives -- 6. "Forced Pregnancy," Humanitarian Access to Reproductive Rights, and Locating "Life" within the Powers of "Death" -- 7. Bleeding Dreams: Miscarriage and the Bindings of the Unborn in the Palestinian Refugee Community of Tyre, South Lebanon -- Section 2. Medical, Legal, and Pharmaceutical Spaces -- 8. Waiting and the Architecture of Care -- 9. The Social Phenomenology of the Next Epidemic: Pain and the Politics of Relief in Botswana's Cancer Ward -- 10. Living and Dying in Mental Health: Guns, Race, and the History of Schizophrenic Violence -- 11. The Wealth of Populations: Poverty and HIV/AIDS in Rural Central China -- 12. Living and Dying with Mycobacteria: Tuberculosis and the Regulation of Anti-tuberculous Drugs in Nepal -- 13. The Juridical Hospital -- 14. The Right of Recovery -- 15. Just Living: Law, Life, Livelihood, and Sexual Assault -- 16. "If You Remember, You Can't Live": Trauma, Insecurity, and the F/utility of "PTSD" in Haiti -- 17. Death as a Resource for Life -- Section 3. Healing: Religious and Secular Bodies -- 18. Thinking about the Secular Body, Pain, and Liberal Politics -- 19. Nonself Help: How Immunology Might Reframe the Enlightenment -- 20. Secular Histories, Saintly Returns: Death and Devotion in Modern Turkey -- 21. The Good and the Bad Breast: Cosmetic Surgery and Breast Cancer -- 22. Attachments of Life: Intimacy, Genital Injury, and the Flesh of the U.S. Soldier Body -- 23. Key Acts: Organ Transplantation and Subjectivities in the Public Sphere -- 24. Life, Death, and Reverie: Method in a Congolese Medical History -- Section 4. Precarious Lives -- 25. Life and Concept -- 26. Never Quite Given: Calling into Question the Relation between Person and World in Post-invasion Iraq -- 27. Mourning, Grief, and the Loss of Politics in Palestine: The Unvoiced Effects of Military Occupation in the West Bank -- 28. Echoes of a Death: Violence, Endurance, and the Experiences of Loss -- 29. Walking Through: Movement, Schizophrenia, and the Vicissitudes of Presence -- 30. "Not Dead Yet": Changing Disability Imaginaries in the Twenty-First Century -- 31. Suffering from Evidence: Expertise, Racial Health Disparities, and the Case of Jerry -- 32. "God Isn't Finished with This City Yet": Disputing Katrina-Related Deaths in Post-disaster New Orleans -- 33. Hunger and Thirst: Crises at Varying Thresholds of Life -- 34. "Tibet on Fire": Self-Immolation, Affect, and the Global "N of 1" -- Section 5. Death and Dying -- 35. After Life -- 36. A Good Death, Recorded -- 37. Lonely Death: Possibilities for a Not-Yet Sociality -- 38. Chemonotes -- 39. The Experience of Death in a Dutch Nursing Home: On Touching the Other -- 40. Life beside Itself -- 41. Traces of Destruction and the Thread of Continuity in Post-genocide Cambodia -- 42. Corpus Vile: Death and Expendable Youth in Urban Congo -- 43. The Value of Life and the Worth of Lives -- 44. The Evolution of Mortality Rates by Sex: The Experiences of the Rich and the Uncertainties of the Not-So-Rich -- Contributors -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797753303321 |
| Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2016 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Living and dying in the contemporary world : a compendium / / Veena Das and Clara Han, editors
| Living and dying in the contemporary world : a compendium / / Veena Das and Clara Han, editors |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (891 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306 |
| Soggetto topico |
Social history - 21st century
Life Death |
| Soggetto non controllato |
anthropology
contemporary health care cross cultural studies death and dying death studies disability studies global health global maternal death health science hiv aids infant mortality international adoption life and death living and dying maternal mortality medical anthropology mental health miscarriage race and healthcare religious healing reproductive rights social history sociology stem cell technology tb tuberculosis transnational adoption |
| ISBN | 0-520-96106-4 |
| Classificazione | LC 56000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Living and Dying in the Contemporary World -- Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Concept Note -- Section 1. Natality, Sexuality, Reproduction -- 1. Maternal Mortality, Technological Innovations, and Therapeutic Strategies -- 2. Conceiving Life and Death: Stem Cell Technologies and Assisted Conception in India and the Middle East -- 3. The Pregnant Hijra: Laughter, Dead Babies, and Invaluable Love -- 4. New Lives for Children: Adoption Documents and the Law in Central Mexico -- 5. Transnational Adoption and (Im)possible Lives -- 6. "Forced Pregnancy," Humanitarian Access to Reproductive Rights, and Locating "Life" within the Powers of "Death" -- 7. Bleeding Dreams: Miscarriage and the Bindings of the Unborn in the Palestinian Refugee Community of Tyre, South Lebanon -- Section 2. Medical, Legal, and Pharmaceutical Spaces -- 8. Waiting and the Architecture of Care -- 9. The Social Phenomenology of the Next Epidemic: Pain and the Politics of Relief in Botswana's Cancer Ward -- 10. Living and Dying in Mental Health: Guns, Race, and the History of Schizophrenic Violence -- 11. The Wealth of Populations: Poverty and HIV/AIDS in Rural Central China -- 12. Living and Dying with Mycobacteria: Tuberculosis and the Regulation of Anti-tuberculous Drugs in Nepal -- 13. The Juridical Hospital -- 14. The Right of Recovery -- 15. Just Living: Law, Life, Livelihood, and Sexual Assault -- 16. "If You Remember, You Can't Live": Trauma, Insecurity, and the F/utility of "PTSD" in Haiti -- 17. Death as a Resource for Life -- Section 3. Healing: Religious and Secular Bodies -- 18. Thinking about the Secular Body, Pain, and Liberal Politics -- 19. Nonself Help: How Immunology Might Reframe the Enlightenment -- 20. Secular Histories, Saintly Returns: Death and Devotion in Modern Turkey -- 21. The Good and the Bad Breast: Cosmetic Surgery and Breast Cancer -- 22. Attachments of Life: Intimacy, Genital Injury, and the Flesh of the U.S. Soldier Body -- 23. Key Acts: Organ Transplantation and Subjectivities in the Public Sphere -- 24. Life, Death, and Reverie: Method in a Congolese Medical History -- Section 4. Precarious Lives -- 25. Life and Concept -- 26. Never Quite Given: Calling into Question the Relation between Person and World in Post-invasion Iraq -- 27. Mourning, Grief, and the Loss of Politics in Palestine: The Unvoiced Effects of Military Occupation in the West Bank -- 28. Echoes of a Death: Violence, Endurance, and the Experiences of Loss -- 29. Walking Through: Movement, Schizophrenia, and the Vicissitudes of Presence -- 30. "Not Dead Yet": Changing Disability Imaginaries in the Twenty-First Century -- 31. Suffering from Evidence: Expertise, Racial Health Disparities, and the Case of Jerry -- 32. "God Isn't Finished with This City Yet": Disputing Katrina-Related Deaths in Post-disaster New Orleans -- 33. Hunger and Thirst: Crises at Varying Thresholds of Life -- 34. "Tibet on Fire": Self-Immolation, Affect, and the Global "N of 1" -- Section 5. Death and Dying -- 35. After Life -- 36. A Good Death, Recorded -- 37. Lonely Death: Possibilities for a Not-Yet Sociality -- 38. Chemonotes -- 39. The Experience of Death in a Dutch Nursing Home: On Touching the Other -- 40. Life beside Itself -- 41. Traces of Destruction and the Thread of Continuity in Post-genocide Cambodia -- 42. Corpus Vile: Death and Expendable Youth in Urban Congo -- 43. The Value of Life and the Worth of Lives -- 44. The Evolution of Mortality Rates by Sex: The Experiences of the Rich and the Uncertainties of the Not-So-Rich -- Contributors -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808604803321 |
| Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2016 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Mortuary dialogues : death ritual and the reproduction of moral community in Pacific modernities / / edited by David Lipset and Eric K. Silverman
| Mortuary dialogues : death ritual and the reproduction of moral community in Pacific modernities / / edited by David Lipset and Eric K. Silverman |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (262 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.90995 |
| Collana | ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology |
| Soggetto topico |
Pacific Islanders - Funeral rites and ceremonies
Funeral rites and ceremonies - Pacific Area Mourning customs - Pacific Area Death - Social aspects - Pacific Area |
| Soggetto non controllato |
after death
afterlife anthropologist anthropology back to normal belief burial christianity colonialism communication cultural culture david lipset death dialogue dying eric k silverman fear of death grave grief historian islands last rites life and death loss maori modern world morgue mortuary mourning pacific islands papua new guinea personhood religion ritual society sorrow spirit talk tribal tribe |
| ISBN | 1-78533-172-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Figures and Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction - Mortuary Ritual, Modern Social Theory, and the Historical Moment in Pacific Modernity; Part 1 - Tenacious Voices; Chapter 1 - Fearing the Dead: The Mortuary Rites of Marshall Islanders amid the Tragedy of Pacific Modernity; Chapter 2 - Into the World of Sorrow: Women and the Work of Death in Maori Mortuary Rites; Chapter 3 - Death and Experience in Rawa Mortuary Rites, Papua New Guinea; Chapter 4 - The Knotted Person: Death, the Bad Breast, and Melanesian Modernity among the Murik, Papua New Guinea
Chapter 5 - Mortuary Ritual and Mining Riches in Island MelanesiaPart 2 - Equivocal Voices; Chapter 6 - Finishing Kapui's Name: Birth, Death, and the Reproduction of Manam Society, Papua New Guinea; Chapter 7 - Transformations of Male Initiation and Mortuary Rites among the Kayan of Papua New Guinea; Chapter 8 - Mortuary Failures: Traditional Uncertainties and Modern Families in the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea; Chapter 9 - Everything Will Come Up Like TV, Everything Will Be Revealed: Death in an Age of Uncertainty in the Purari Delta, Papua New Guinea Afterword - Mortuary Dialogues in Pacific Modernities and AnthropologyIndex |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798597203321 |
| New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2016 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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