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Taming time, timing death : social technologies and ritual / edited by Dorthe Refslund Christensen, Rane Willerslev.

Title
Taming time, timing death : social technologies and ritual / edited by Dorthe Refslund Christensen, Rane Willerslev.
Publication
Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2013.

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Additional Authors
  • Christensen, Dorthe Refslund.
  • Willerslev, Rane, 1971-
Description
xi, 269 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
Presenting rich, interdisciplinary empirical studies of death rituals and practices across the globe, from the UK and Europe, South and East Asia, The Middle East, Australasia and Africa, Taming Time, Timing Death explores the manner in which social technologies and rituals have been and are implemented to avoid, delay or embrace death.
Subject
  • Death > Social aspects
  • Time perspective
  • Time > Sociological aspects
  • Funeral rites and ceremonies
  • Tod
  • Zeit
  • Zeitwahrnehmung
  • Bestattungsritus
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9781409450689 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 1409450686 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9781409450696 (ebook)
  • 1409450694 (ebook)
  • 9781409472889 (epub)
  • 1409472884 (epub)
LCCN
  • ^^2012040432
  • 40022503452
OCLC
  • 812687866
  • SCSB-11286547
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library