Death In The Early Twenty-first Century: Authority, Innovation, And Mortuary Rites
by Sergei Kan /
2017 / English / PDF
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Focusing on tradition, technology, and authority, this volume
challenges classical understandings that mortuary rites are
inherently conservative. The contributors examine innovative and
enduring ideas and practices of death, which reflect and constitute
changing patterns of social relationships, memorialisation, and the
afterlife. This cross-cultural study examines the lived experiences
of men and women from societies across the globe with diverse
religious heritages and secular value systems. The book
demonstrates that mortuary practices are not fixed forms, but
rather dynamic processes negotiated by the dying, the bereaved,
funeral experts, and public institutions. In addition to offering a
new theoretical perspective on the anthropology of death, this work
provides a rich resource for readers interested in human responses
to mortality: the one certainty of human existence.
Focusing on tradition, technology, and authority, this volume
challenges classical understandings that mortuary rites are
inherently conservative. The contributors examine innovative and
enduring ideas and practices of death, which reflect and constitute
changing patterns of social relationships, memorialisation, and the
afterlife. This cross-cultural study examines the lived experiences
of men and women from societies across the globe with diverse
religious heritages and secular value systems. The book
demonstrates that mortuary practices are not fixed forms, but
rather dynamic processes negotiated by the dying, the bereaved,
funeral experts, and public institutions. In addition to offering a
new theoretical perspective on the anthropology of death, this work
provides a rich resource for readers interested in human responses
to mortality: the one certainty of human existence.
