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Constructing Death : The Sociology of Dying and Bereavement
Clive Seale
Paperback - $69.95
Constructing Death reviews sociological, anthropological and historical studies of death, grief and mourning in order to illuminate present-day experience. It is both an introduction to the sociological study of death, dying and bereavement, and an o ...
The Last Word : Women, Death, and Divination in Inner Mani
C. Nadia Seremetakis
Paperback - $75.95
Based on years of fieldwork in both rural and urban Greece, "The Last Word" explores women's cultural resistance as they weave together diverse social practices: improvised antiphonic laments, divinatory dreaming, the care and tending of olive trees ...
Adonais an Elegy on the Death
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Paperback - $26.95
Most Musical Of Mourners, Weep Again! Lament Anew, Urania! He Died, Who Was The Sire Of An Immortal Strain, Blind, Old And Lonely, When His Country's Pride, The Priest, The Slave And The Liberticide, Trampled And Mock'd With Many A Loathed Rite Of Lu ...
Big Death : Funeral Planning in the Age of Corporate Deathcare
Doug Smith
Paperback - $38.95
In an overview of the last 20 years, this account shows how the corporate death care industry has bought up countless funeral homes, jacked up prices, and maintained the facade of local ownership by not changing the name over the door. They have take ...
Forced Exit : Euthanasia, Assisted Suicid, and the New Duty to Die
Wesley J. Smith
Paperback - $30.95
Exposing the false premise of the euthanasia movement to make a compelling case against assisted suicide, Forced Exit reveals the horrors of the Netherlands, where 8.5 percent of all deaths are attributed to assisted suicide and where Dutch doctors h ...
Burial Terminology : A Guide for Researchers
Roderick Sprague
Paperback - $80.95
Reference guide establishing a standard terminology for archaeologists to use to describe burials and grave goods. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Revolutions in Sorrow : The American Experience of Death in Global Perspective
Peter N. Stearns
Hardcover - $170.95
The Price of Death : The Funeral Industry in Contemporary Japan
Hikaru Suzuki
Hardcover - $113.95
" This original and stimulating book presents detailed ethnographic information on a little-known aspect of Japanese society. It is a lively and moving account, with many interesting analytic points. The author' s behind-the-scenes perspective on the ...
Death and Anti-Death, Volume 2 : Two Hundred Years After Kant, Fifty Years After Turing
Charles Tandy
Hardcover - $62.95
This anthology discusses a number of interdisciplinary cultural, psychological, metaphysical, and moral issues and controversies related to death, life extension, and anti-death. This volume is in honor of the 19th century Russian philosopher Fedorov ...