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OverviewThe Unknown Sea: Navigating Death, Dying, and Bereavement provides a relatively compact, comprehensive text for studying social attitudes, cultural perspectives, and social-institutional factors associated with death and dying. It explores aspects of end-of-life issues, bereavement, and the afterlife from a teaching perspective, engaging gerontology students at any level of study.This new textbook dives deep into the global diversity of grief experiences, something most textbooks neglect. Instead of focusing primarily on the thanatology of a white, middle-class experience, The Unknown Sea centers the many diverse cultural, ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic perspectives that shape the meaning of death across the world.Social Science and Sociology instructors teaching end-of-life and grief subjects often struggle to find a textbook that effectively fits their course due to most books being either too expensive, too large, written for upper-division courses, or poorly designed. The Unknown Sea, by Patricia L. Antoine, fills this gap in the published materials currently available, particularly for instructors within a quarter system and at community colleges. Students in these courses deserve access to high quality instructional materials that serve the needs of their instructors' course design and are affordable. The Unknown Sea contains the following features: Eleven chapters on the major areas covered in death and dying courses Expansive real-world examples centering diverse experiences with death and dying Macro and micro analysis of topic and core concepts A variety of call-out boxes and sidebars to enhance understanding of difficult or specific topics Full-color images and original data visualizations Chapter discussion questions, suggested activities, and further reading A glossary and index of key terms And a comprehensive bibliography intended to support assertions in the text and provide an additional reading list Full Product DetailsAuthor: Patricia L AntoinePublisher: Chemeketa Press Imprint: Chemeketa Press ISBN: 9781955499316ISBN 10: 1955499314 Publication Date: 01 September 2025 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available ![]() This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationPatricia Antoine has been teaching Sociology at a community college since 1990. She lives in rural Yamhill County, Oregon where she tends her small farm and raises honey bees. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |