Last Rites

The Work of the Modern Funeral Director

Glennys Howarth (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

1996
Baywood Publishing Company Inc (Verlag)
978-0-89503-345-1 (ISBN)

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This book examines death rituals and the social significance of undertaking in western society and presents an ethnographic account of funeral directing in an area of east London which, for the purposes of anonymity. It is concerned with undertakers' perceptions and organization of death rituals.

Glennys Howarth

Introduction CHAPTER 1 Modern Death Rituals and the Undertaker CHAPTER 2 The Business of Funeral Directing CHAPTER 3 Funeral Directing in Easton CHAPTER 4 Becoming an Undertaker CHAPTER 5 The Contaminated Corpse CHAPTER 6 Making Arrangements CHAPTER 7 Humanizing the Body CHAPTER 8 The Funeral Ceremony CONCLUSION: The Undertaker: Past, Present, and Future Bibliography Index

Verlagsort	Amityville
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Palliativpflege / Sterbebegleitung
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
	Technik
ISBN-10	0-89503-345-3 / 0895033453
ISBN-13	978-0-89503-345-1 / 9780895033451
Zustand	Neuware