Grief in cross-cultural perspective : a casebook / Larry A. Platt, co-editor, V. Richard Persico, Jr.

Other author Platt, Larry A.
Other author Persico, V. Richard.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Garland Pub., ©1992.
Descriptionxvii, 428 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesGarland reference library of social science ; vol. 557
Garland reference library of social science ; v. 557. ^A654520
Contents Social meaning of death. Meaning and materialism : the ritual economy of death / Peter Metcalf -- Symbolism and social change : matters of life and death in Whalsay, Shetland / Anthony P. Cohen -- Gusii funerals : meanings of life and death in African community / Robert A. LeVine -- Relationship between the deceased and the survivor. Guilt and pollution in Sebei mortuary rituals / Walter Goldschmidt -- Death and the social order : Bara funeral customs (Madagascar) / W.R. Huntington -- Death in Islam : the Hawkes Bay Case / Akbar S. Ahmed -- El cargo de las animas : mortuary rituals and the cargo system in highland Peru / Pierre L. Van den Berghe -- Mode of death. The experience of repeated and traumatic loss among Crow Indian children : response patterns and intervention strategies / Kathleen Ann Long -- "He died too quick!" The process of dying in a Hutterian colony / Peter H. Stephenson -- "I'm not dead yet!" Aging and death : process and experience in Kaliai / Dorothy Ayers Counts and David R. Counts.
Contents (cont.) Social support network. A time to live, a time to grieve : patterns and processes of mourning among the Yolngu of Australia / Janice Reid -- Dying, death, and bereavement among the Maya Indians of Mesoamerica / Richard L. Steele.
Local noteLittle-294457--305131000537S
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 91025907
ISBN0824045653 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HQ1073.G75 1992 ✔ Available Place Hold