| The Unknown Country: Death in Australia, Britain and the USA 1997 Edition Contributor(s): Charmaz, Kathy (Editor), Howarth, Glennys (Editor), Kellehear, Allan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1349255955 ISBN-13: 9781349255955 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Developing & Emerging Countries |
| Dewey: 301 |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.81 lbs) 268 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In a strategy deliberately counter to many earlier texts which focus on social aspects of death and dying this book will not examine death through the social prism of US or British culture alone. Drawing only on material from a single society gives readers the misleading impression of a universal experience. As a text in the sociology of death and dying this volume examines culture-specific images and experiences of death in three major western societies - Australia, Britain and the USA. |