| Description |
1 online resource (x, 278 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Ambiguous Mortal Remains, Substitute Bodies, and other Materializations of the Dead among the Garo of Northeast India / Erik de Maaker -- Structures and Processes of Liminality : The Shape of Mourning among the Sora of Tribal India / Piers Vitebsky -- Liminal Bodies, Liminal Food : Hindu and Tribal Death Rituals Compared / Peter Berger -- The Liminality of "Living Martyrdom" : Suicide Bombers' Preparations for Paradise / Pieter Nanninga -- Disappearance and Liminality : Argentina's Mourning of State Terror / Antonius C.G.M. Robben -- Three Dimensions of Liminality in the Context of Kyrgyz Death Rituals / Roland Hardenberg -- Death, Ritual, and Effervescence / Peter Berger -- Hungry Ghost or Divine Soul? : Post-Mortem Initiation in Medieval Shaiva Tantric Death Rites / Nina Mirnig -- Between Death and Judgement : Sleep as the Image of Death in Early Modern Protestantism / Justin E.A. Kroesen and Jan R. Luth -- Body and Soul Between Death and Funeral in Archaic Greece / Jan N. Bremmer -- Death, Memory and Liminality : Rethinking Lampedusa's Later Life as Author and Aristocrat / Yme B. Kuiper |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Death -- Social aspects -- Case studies
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Death -- Religious aspects -- Case studies
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Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Case studies
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Liminality -- Case studies
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Death -- Religious aspects
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Death -- Social aspects
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Funeral rites and ceremonies
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Liminality
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Berger, Peter, 1969- editor.
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Kroesen, Justin, 1975- editor
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| ISBN |
9781782386100 |
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1782386106 |
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