Death Across Cultures, 1st ed. 2019 Death and Dying in Non-Western Cultures Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science Series, Vol. 9
Coordonnateurs : Selin Helaine, Rakoff Robert M.
Death Across Cultures: Death and Dying in Non-Western Cultures, explores death practices and beliefs, before and after death, around the non-Western world. It includes chapters on countries in Africa, Asia, South America, as well as indigenous people in Australia and North America. These chapters address changes in death rituals and beliefs, medicalization and the industry of death, and the different ways cultures mediate the impacts of modernity. Comparative studies with the west and among countries are included. This book brings together global research conducted by anthropologists, social scientists and scholars who work closely with individuals from the cultures they are writing about.
Helaine Selin was a Faculty Associate and Science Librarian at Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, from which she retired in 2012. She is the editor of the Encyclopedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures (3rd ed. Springer 2016) and seven books in Springer’s Science Across Cultures series, on Astronomy, Mathematics, Medicine, Nature, Childbirth, Parenting, and Happiness.
Date de parution : 08-2020
Ouvrage de 389 p.
15.5x23.5 cm
Date de parution : 07-2019
Ouvrage de 389 p.
15.5x23.5 cm
Thèmes de Death Across Cultures :
Mots-clés :
Death and Cultures; Dying in Non-Western Cultures; Mourning in Non-Western Cultures; Burial in Non-Western Cultures; Funerals in Cultures; Indigenous People and Death; Death Industry; Animism; Alaskan natives; Medicalization; Good death; Native Hawaiian; American Indians; Fear of death and dying; Dignity in death; area studies