Celebrations of Death The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual

Name: Celebrations of Death The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual
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ISBN: 9780521423755

ISBN-10: 0521423759

ISBN-13: 9780521423755

Edition: 2nd 1991 (Revised)

Authors: Peter Metcalf, Richard Huntington

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This revised edition of a cross-cultural study of rituals surrounding death has become a standard text in anthropology, sociology, and religion. Part of its fascination and success is that in understanding other people's death rituals we are able to gain a better understanding of our own. Peter Metcalf and Richard Huntington refer to a wide variety of examples from different continents and epochs. They compare the great tombs of the Berawan of Borneo and the pyramids of Egypt, or the dramas of medieval French royal funerals and the burial alive of the Dinka "masters of the spear" in the Sudan, and other burials which at first sight seem to have little in common. Many of these cases are…

Book details

List price: $31.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/25/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 258
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.13" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of illustrations


Preface


Introduction to the second edition



Preliminaries



Universals and Culture



Emotional reactions to death



Symbolic associations of death



Death as Transition



The living and the dead: a re-examination of Hertz



Death rituals and life values: rites of passage reconsidered



The Royal Corpse and the Body Politic



The dead king



The immortal kingship



Seeing Ourselves Anew



American deathways


Bibliography


Index