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• catalog abstract "This revised and updated edition of a cross-cultural study of rituals surrounding death has become a standard text in anthropology, sociology, and religion. Part of its fascination and success-also among a general readership-is that in understanding other people's death rituals we are also able to gain a better understanding of our own.".
• catalog contributor b3407711.
• catalog contributor b3407712.
• catalog contributor b3407713.
• catalog created "1991.".
• catalog date "1991".
• catalog date "1991.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1991.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-230) and index.".
• catalog description "Introduction to the second edition -- Ritual and emotion -- Ritual and the polity -- "Life as a political resource -- The Universal and the particular -- Death rituals and exchange -- Reconstructing death rites -- Death and the longue dur ée -- Death and reflexivity -- I. Preliminaries -- Death in life -- The "Death awareness" movement -- Death ritual and nineteenth-century anthropology -- Durkheim and the sociology of religion -- Van Gennep's rites of passage -- Liminality -- Hertz's study of the secondary burial -- Modern developments of Hertz's thesis -- The Format of this book.".
• catalog description "Part I. Universals and culture -- 2. Emotional reactions to death -- Sentiments and society: Radcliffe-Brown's theory -- Durkheim and the aborigines -- "A Passion of grief": Nyakyusa funerals -- Culture and sentiment -- 3. Symbolic associations of death -- Drumming: symbol of death, liminality, or divinity -- Ritual actions and daily activities -- Liminality and the corpse -- Rotting, fermenting, dyeing, and distilling -- The Universal and the particular.".
• catalog description "Part II. Death as transition -- 4. The Living and the dead: a re-examination of Hertz -- Three sides of Hertz's analysis -- An application: Berawan death rites -- Variations on a theme: Ma'anyan, Toradja, Balinese, Iban, and Mambai -- 5. Death rituals and life values: rites of passage reconsidered -- Life themes in death -- Problems with the approaches of Hertz and van Gennep -- Bara life values: order and vitality -- The Bara funeral sequence: burial, gathering, reburial -- Symbolic generation of vitality -- Resolution: intercourse and rebirth -- Transition and life.".
• catalog description "Part III. The Royal corpse and the body politic -- 6. The Dead king -- Royal funerals in the Indic states of Southeast Asia: Thailand and Bali -- Legitimization through death monuments: the Berawan -- Pyramid building and the Pharaonic state -- 7. The Immortal kingship -- The Divine kingship of the Shilluk of the Sudan -- Body politic and body natural -- Le roi est mort! Vive le roi! -- Regicide -- Dinka burial alive.".
• catalog description "Part IV. Seeing ourselves anew -- 8. American deathways -- Problems in the study of American deathways -- The First paradox: ritual uniformity and indeterminate ideology -- Critiques of the funeral industry -- Fear and guilt: the inadequacy of psychology -- Collective representations of death in America -- The Second paradox: puppet death -- An Indigenous American religion.".
• catalog description "This revised and updated edition of a cross-cultural study of rituals surrounding death has become a standard text in anthropology, sociology, and religion. Part of its fascination and success-also among a general readership-is that in understanding other people's death rituals we are also able to gain a better understanding of our own.".
• catalog extent "xiii, 236 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0521413125 (hardcover)".
• catalog identifier "0521423759 (pbk.)".
• catalog issued "1991".
• catalog issued "1991.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
• catalog subject "393 20".
• catalog subject "Attitude to Death.".
• catalog subject "Cross-Cultural Comparison.".
• catalog subject "Death.".
• catalog subject "Funeral Rites History.".
• catalog subject "Funeral rites and ceremonies.".
• catalog subject "GN 486 M588c 1991a".
• catalog subject "GN486 .M48 1991".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction to the second edition -- Ritual and emotion -- Ritual and the polity -- "Life as a political resource -- The Universal and the particular -- Death rituals and exchange -- Reconstructing death rites -- Death and the longue dur ée -- Death and reflexivity -- I. Preliminaries -- Death in life -- The "Death awareness" movement -- Death ritual and nineteenth-century anthropology -- Durkheim and the sociology of religion -- Van Gennep's rites of passage -- Liminality -- Hertz's study of the secondary burial -- Modern developments of Hertz's thesis -- The Format of this book.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Part I. Universals and culture -- 2. Emotional reactions to death -- Sentiments and society: Radcliffe-Brown's theory -- Durkheim and the aborigines -- "A Passion of grief": Nyakyusa funerals -- Culture and sentiment -- 3. Symbolic associations of death -- Drumming: symbol of death, liminality, or divinity -- Ritual actions and daily activities -- Liminality and the corpse -- Rotting, fermenting, dyeing, and distilling -- The Universal and the particular.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Part II. Death as transition -- 4. The Living and the dead: a re-examination of Hertz -- Three sides of Hertz's analysis -- An application: Berawan death rites -- Variations on a theme: Ma'anyan, Toradja, Balinese, Iban, and Mambai -- 5. Death rituals and life values: rites of passage reconsidered -- Life themes in death -- Problems with the approaches of Hertz and van Gennep -- Bara life values: order and vitality -- The Bara funeral sequence: burial, gathering, reburial -- Symbolic generation of vitality -- Resolution: intercourse and rebirth -- Transition and life.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Part III. The Royal corpse and the body politic -- 6. The Dead king -- Royal funerals in the Indic states of Southeast Asia: Thailand and Bali -- Legitimization through death monuments: the Berawan -- Pyramid building and the Pharaonic state -- 7. The Immortal kingship -- The Divine kingship of the Shilluk of the Sudan -- Body politic and body natural -- Le roi est mort! Vive le roi! -- Regicide -- Dinka burial alive.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Part IV. Seeing ourselves anew -- 8. American deathways -- Problems in the study of American deathways -- The First paradox: ritual uniformity and indeterminate ideology -- Critiques of the funeral industry -- Fear and guilt: the inadequacy of psychology -- Collective representations of death in America -- The Second paradox: puppet death -- An Indigenous American religion.".
• catalog title "Celebrations of death : the anthropology of mortuary ritual / Peter Metcalf, Richard Huntington.".
• catalog type "text".