Sociology: death & dying books

Extinction Dialogs provides the unvarnished truth on what is actually happening in regards to global warming, the...  Read More >>

Attitudes, beliefs and customs surrounding each gravesite, when combined on a longitudinal scale, reveal changes...  Read More >>

Examines key themes about belief and ritual, body and deposition, place, performance and commemoration.  Read More >>

Multidisciplinary: humanities + social sciences. Death is analysed as a cultural event. Includes creative...  Read More >>

While death is the ultimate outcome for any living being, the afterlife is a much more ephemeral situation. While...  Read More >>

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Mapping theoretical and empirical terrains, this volume suggests that the management of dead bodies is related to...  Read More >>

In The Mortuary Archaeology of the Medieval Banat (10th - 14th centuries) Silviu Ota highlights the interactions...  Read More >>

Annie Clara Brown is passionate about her work in hospice. It is gratifying to have embraced the social work profession...  Read More >>

Death allows deep cognition of cultural practices and worldviews of a given community. Through death and the activities...  Read More >>

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Multidisciplinary or post-disciplinary research is what is needed when dealing with such complex subjects as ritual...  Read More >>

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Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink's gripping and riveting true story of the hospital doctors who struggled to survive...  Read More >>

The first study to unpack American cinema’s long history of representing death  Read More >>

Ashes, Images, and Memories argues that the institution of public burial for the war dead and images of the deceased...  Read More >>

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""Calling in the Soul"" (Hu Plig) is the chant the Hmong use to guide the soul of a newborn baby into its body on...  Read More >>

A ""wonderful"" (Harper's), ""engrossing"" (Parade) exploration of the most universal of human obsessions: immortality--from...  Read More >>

After Life: True Tales of the Restless Dead unearths and presents fantastic postmortem adventures undertaken by...  Read More >>

Ash, bone, and memories are all that remains after cremation. Yet for societies and communities, the act of cremation...  Read More >>

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