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Celebrations of death : the anthropology of mortuary ritual / Richard Huntington, Peter Metcalf.

Title
Celebrations of death : the anthropology of mortuary ritual / Richard Huntington, Peter Metcalf.
Author
Huntington, Richard.
Publication
Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1979.

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Additional Authors
  • Metcalf, Peter
  • Metcalf, Peter.
Description
xv, 230 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Death
  • Funeral rites and ceremonies
  • Attitude to Death
  • Cross-Cultural Comparison
  • Funeral Rites > history
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 212-223.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction: The anthropology of death ritual -- The emotional reaction to death -- Symbols of death and transition -- Souls, ghosts, and the hereafter : a reexamination of Hertz -- Death rituals and life values : rites of passage reconsidered -- The dead king -- The immortal kingship -- Conclusion: American deathways.
ISBN
  • 0521225310
  • 0521295408 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^79000478^//r82
OCLC
  • 4638983
  • SCSB-9965491
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library