Death and the Regeneration of Life

Name: Death and the Regeneration of Life
Price: 4.9 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780521270373

ISBN-10: 0521270375

ISBN-13: 9780521270373

Edition: 1982

Authors: Maurice Bloch, Jonathan P. Parry

List price: $31.99

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $25.03

Marketplace

4 new & used from $4.90

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

It is a classical anthropological paradox that symbols of rebirth and fertility are frequently found in funerary rituals throughout the world. The original essays collected here re-examine this phenomenon in the light of new information from China, India, New Guinea, Latin America, and Africa. The contributors, each a specialist in one of these areas, have worked in close collaboration to produce a genuinely innovative theoretical approach to the study of the symbolism surrounding death, an outline of which is provided in an important introduction by the editors. The major concern of the volume is the way in which funerary rituals dramatically transform the image of life as a dialectic flux…

Book details

List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 1982
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/30/1982
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.10" wide x 8.98" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English

Maurice Bloch is Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His work is unique in that he is both an active field-working anthropologist and a general theoretician. Bloch has been a leading figure among those anthropologists who seek to reintegrate social and anthropological theory with the work of cognitive scientists and prehistorians.



Preface



Introduction: death and the regeneration of life




The dead and the devils among the




Sacrificial death and the necrophagous ascetic




Witchcraft, greed, cannibalism and death: some related themes from the New Guinea Highlands




Lugbara death




Of flesh and bones: the management of death pollution in Cantoese society




Social dimensions of death in four African hunting and gathering societies




Death, women and power



Index