| The Place of the Dead Contributor(s): Gordon, Bruce (Editor), Marshall, Peter (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521642566 ISBN-13: 9780521642569 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 2000 Annotation: Although much has been published on the social history of death, this is the first book to give a comprehensive account of attitudes toward the dead--above all the "placing" of the dead, in physical, spiritual and social terms--in order to reveal the social and religious outlook of past societies. The contributions range widely geographically, from Scotland to Transylvania, and address a spectrum of themes: attitudes toward the corpse, patterns of burial, forms of commemoration, the treatment of dead infants, the nature of the afterlife, and ghosts. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Death & Dying - History | Europe - General |
| Dewey: 393.094 |
| LCCN: 99020482 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.30 lbs) 340 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Although much has been published on the social history of death, this is the first book to give a comprehensive account of attitudes toward the dead--above all the placing of the dead, in physical, spiritual and social terms--in order to reveal the social and religious outlook of past societies. The contributions range widely geographically, from Scotland to Transylvania, and address a spectrum of themes: attitudes toward the corpse, patterns of burial, forms of commemoration, the treatment of dead infants, the nature of the afterlife, and ghosts. |