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Spectacles of Death in Ancient Romeby Donald G. Kyle
Routledge 1998; US$ 130.00Spectacles in Death in Ancient Rome is a provocative, detailed and sometimes controversial work which raises fundamental questions about the role of ritualized violence in Roman and other societies. more...
Death, Gender and Ethnicityby David Field; Jenny Hockey; Neil Small
Routledge 1997; US$ 59.95Examines the ways in which gender and ethnicity shape the diversity of experiences of dying and bereavement. Drawing on a range of detailed case studies, this collection seeks to develop a more sensitive theoretical approach. more...
Representations of Deathby Mary Bradbury
Routledge 1999; US$ 59.95Drawing upon a rare and highly original ethnography of mortuary practices in the 1990s, this is an intriguing book which takes the reader through the medical, bureaucratic, commercial and ritual aspects of death today. more...
Revival of Deathby Tony Walter
Routledge 1994; US$ 53.95The current revival of interest in death seeks ultimate authority in the individual self. This is the first book to comprehensively examine this revival and relate it to theories of modernity and postmodernity. more...
Foundations of Violenceby Grace M. Jantzen
Routledge 2004; US$ 44.95Foundations of Violence enters the ancient world of Homer, Plato and Aristotle to explore the genealogy of violence in Western thought through its emergence in Greece and Rome. more...
Studies in Contemporary Jewryby Peter Y. Medding
Oxford University Press 1999; US$ 120.00How has the Jewish family changed over the course of the twentieth century? How has it remained the same? How do Jewish families see themselves--historically, socially, politically, and economically--and how would they like to be seen by others? This book, the fourteenth volume of Oxford's internationally acclaimed Studies in Contemporary Jewry series, presents a variety of perspectives on Jewish families coping with life and death in the twentieth century. The book is comprised of symposium papers, essays, and review articles of works published on such fundamental subjects as the Holocaust, antisemitism, genocide, history, literature, the arts, religion, education, Zionism, Israel, and the Middle East. Published annually by the Avraham Harman... more...
Beyond the Bodyby Elizabeth Hallam; Lorna Hockey Jennifer; Howarth Glennys
Routledge 1999; US$ 57.95Presents a new and sophisticated approach to death, dying and bereavement, and the sociology of the body. The authors challenge existing theories that put the body at the centre of identity. more...
Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain, 1870-1914by Julie-Marie Strange; Margot Finn; Keith Wrightson; Colin Jones
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 31.00Julie-Marie Strange studies the expression of grief among the working class in Victorian and Edwardian Britain, demonstrating that poverty increased - rather than deadened - it. She illustrates the mourning practices of the working classes through chapters addressing care of the corpse, the funeral, the cemetery, and commemoration. more...
Endingsby Michael C. Kearl
Oxford University Press 1990; US$ 75.00Arguing that death is the central force shaping our social life and order, the author draws on a wide variety of disciplines to provide a broad sociological perspective on the interrelationships of life and death. more...
The Culture of Deathby Benjamin Noys
Berg Publishers 2005; US$ 109.95Western culture has always been obsessed with death, but now death has taken on a new, anonymous form. The 20th Century saw the mass production of corpses through war and the triumph of technology over the human body. The new millennium has opened with global terrorism and the suspension of all human rights in far-flung prison camps. more...