Never look at a grave the same way again Admit it: You're fascinated by cemeteries. We all die, and for most of us, a cemetery is our final resting place. But how many people ...

This book provides a comprehensive account of attitudes towards the dead and their 'placing'.

Constructing Death reviews sociological, anthropological and historical studies of death, grief and mourning in order to illuminate present-day experience. It is both an ...

A study of Hindu death rituals and the sacred specialists who perform them in the Indian city of Banaras.

This book, first published in 1999, explores the experience of private loss and grief after the two world wars.

This innovative study of the patriarchy belies the accepted notion of the father figure as tyrannical and exploitative.

Brookes, known for his mastery of the English language, turns an account of the death of his mother into a work hailed as literature by book critics, and as moving testimony of ...

At a time when tempers flare over the Oregon assisted suicide law and Jack Kevorkian's physician-aid-in-dying, Last Wish, Betty Rollin's groundbreaking New York Times ...

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This compelling text and dramatic photographic essay convey the emotional power of the death rituals of a small Greek village--the funeral, the singing of laments, the ...