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This sociological work examines the phenomenon of the Death Café, a regular gathering of strangers from all walks of life who engage in “death talk” over coffee, tea, and desserts.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This volume provides a series of illuminating perspectives on the timings... Læs mere
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
The study of death has the capacity to bring together a range of policy areas. Yet death is often overlooked within policy debates in the UK and beyond, and... Læs mere
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This volume provides a series of illuminating perspectives on the timings... Læs mere
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
Since the construction of death mores has social implications, a major element of the book is an examination of the way in which groups and individuals employ specific representations of mortality in order to generate meaning and purpose for life and death.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
The book argues that attitudes to death and to disposal are culturally formed and examines the factors in the formation and decline of such attitudes by analysing specific issues over four centuries of death.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
Koslofsky examines the human encounter with death in Germany from the eve of the Reformation to the rise of Pietism. By... Læs mere
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Seventy per cent of British families now choose cremation for their funerals, a rapid change in traditional death customs. This study is doubly timely with the expanding scholarly interest in death studies, and the new media interest in the British way of death.
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This book narrates how, beginning in 1936, bodies buried in mass graves during the Spanish War and subsequent dictatorship were turned into monuments.
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Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
This book explores how, in encounters with the terminally ill and dying, there is something existentially at stake for the... Læs mere
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.