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In: Studies in Law, Politics and Society, S. 97-115
In: Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science 9
In: Springer eBook Collection
In: Springer eBooks
In: Social Sciences
The Evolution of Funerary Ritual in Urbanizing China -- Belief in Karma and Mokṣa at the End of Life in India- Death and the Afterlife in Japan -- Return to Nature? Secularism and Politics of Death Space in Hong Kong -- Death and Dying: Belief, Fear and Ritual in Vietnamese Culture -- Negotiating Traditions and Modernity: Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore -- The Bureaucratic Professionalization of Funeral Rites in Tehran's Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery -- Death and Burial Practices in Contemporary Zulu Culture, South Africa -- Death in Botswana: Life Among the Ashes -- Ancestors and Death: From West Africa to Southwest Europe -- Living Coffins and Death Among the Ga of Ghana -- The Yoruba of Nigeria and the Ontology of Death and Burial -- Transformation of Funeral Rituals in Togo -- Rituals Around Life and Death in Mexico; The Day of the Dead -- Continuity and Ruptures in Brazilian Funeral Rites -- The Right to a Dignified Death in Argentina -- Superstar-Saints and Wandering Souls: The Cemetery as a Cultural Hotspot in Latin American Cities -- He taonga tuku iho: Indigenous End of Life and Death Care Customs of New Zealand Māori -- Communicating with the Dead in an Australian Aboriginal Culture: The Tiwi from Melville and Bathurst Islands -- Death and Dying in American Indian Cultures -- The Beauty of the Afterlife Among the Inuit of Nunavut -- Eternity Calling: Modernity and the Revival of Death and the Afterlife
In: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture 12
The Latin root of the English word culture ties together both worship and the tilling of the soil. In both interpretations the outcome is the same: a rightly-directed culture produces either a bountiful harvest or falls short of the mark, materially or spiritually. This volume offers a critical examination of the nature and depth of our contemporary cultural crisis, focused on its lack of traditional orientation and moral understanding.
In: Emerald Studies in Death and Culture
In: Emerald Studies in Death and Culture Ser.
Death, Culture and Leisure: Playing Deadis an inter- and multi-disciplinary volume that engages with the diverse nexuses that exist between death, culture and leisure. At its heart, it is a playful exploration of the way in which we play with both death and the dead.
In: Emerald Studies in Death and Culture Ser
Portrayals of death and the dead are everywhere within popular culture revealing much about contemporary society's engagement with mortality. Drawing upon celebrity posthumous careers, organ transplantation mythology and the fictional dead, this book considers how representations of the dead in popular culture exert powerful agency
In: Social history, Band 30, Heft 2, S. 175-194
ISSN: 1470-1200
In: Social text, Band 26, Heft 3, S. 39-58
ISSN: 1527-1951
In: The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture Ser
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction: Death as a topic in contemporary popular culture; PART 1 Collective attitudes towards and responses to death and mortality; 1 Thoughts for the times on the death taboo: Trivialization, tivolization, and re-domestication in the age of spectacular death; 2 'A stark and lonely death': Representations of dying alone in popular culture; 3 Celebrity deaths and the thanatological imagination; 4 The Penguin and the Wahine: Shipwrecks, resilience, and popular culture
In: Emerald Studies in Death and Culture Ser
In: Emerald studies in death and culture
Coffins in the Late Twentieth CenturyUrns and Caskets; Chapter 5: Transport to Paradise; Carrying the Coffin and Walking Funerals; The Wheel Bier; The Horse-Drawn Hearse; 'Place on Rail'; The Motor Hearse Arrives; Distance and International Transportation; Transport, Cremation and Organisational Change; F.W. Paine and Cremation; Chapter 6: Organisational Change; Introduction; The Funeral Industry 1900-1960; The Co-operative Movement; Expansion, Acquisition and Organisational Developments 1960-1994; Problems Facing Small Funeral Organisations; Mergers and Acquisitions 1970-1995
In: Routledge interpretive marketing research series 22
In: Consumption, markets and culture, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 283-286
ISSN: 1477-223X
In: Emerald studies in death and culture
2.2. Tyburn as a Historically and Topographically Conceived Space2.3. Tyburn as a Lived Space; 2.4. Tyburn as a Perceived Space; 2.5. Tyburn as Theatrical Space; 2.6. Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 3 Consumption (Number 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester); 3.1. Some Context; 3.2. Number 25 as Perceived Space; 3.3. Number 25 as Conceived Space; 3.4. Number 25 as Lived Space; 3.5. Theatrical Space or Watched Space?; 3.6. Theatrical Space as Contradictory Space; 3.7. The Space of Consumption; 3.8. Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 4 Politicization (Neumarkt, Dresden); 4.1. Dresden's Neumarkt as Conceived Space
In: Springer eBook Collection