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Representations of death : a social psychological perspective / Mary Bradbury ; foreword by Rob Farr ; photographs by Peter Rauter.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Routledge, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 227 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0203158563
  • 9780203158562
  • 9780203006283
  • 0203006283
  • 0415150213
  • 9780415150217
  • 9781134748761
  • 1134748760
  • 9781134748716
  • 113474871X
  • 9781134748754
  • 1134748752
  • 9780415150224
  • 0415150221
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Representations of death.DDC classification:
  • 306.9 21
LOC classification:
  • HQ1073 .B7 1999eb
Online resources:
Contents:
1. The study of death : a social psychological approach -- 2. Researching death : an urban ethnography -- 3. Medicine and bureaucracy -- 4. Commerce and ritual -- 5. The body -- 6. Social representations of death -- 7. Social representations of loss -- 8. Re-presenting death.
Summary: Drawing upon a rare and highly original ethnography of mortuary practices in the 1990s, this book takes the reader through the medical, bureaucratic, commercial and ritual aspects of death.
Holdings
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-216) and index.

Print version record.

1. The study of death : a social psychological approach -- 2. Researching death : an urban ethnography -- 3. Medicine and bureaucracy -- 4. Commerce and ritual -- 5. The body -- 6. Social representations of death -- 7. Social representations of loss -- 8. Re-presenting death.

Drawing upon a rare and highly original ethnography of mortuary practices in the 1990s, this book takes the reader through the medical, bureaucratic, commercial and ritual aspects of death.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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