Mortality, Mourning and Mortuary Practices in Indigenous Australia (Hardcover, New Ed)

Drawing on ethnography of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia, Mortality, Mourning and Mortuary Practices in Indigenous Australia focuses on the current ways in which indigenous people confront and manage various aspects of death. The contributors employ their contemporary and long-term anthropological fieldwork with indigenous Australians to construct rich accounts of indigenous practices and beliefs and to engage with questions relating to the frequent experience of death within the context of unprecedented change and premature mortality. The volume makes use of extensive empirical material to address questions of inequality with specific reference to mortality, thus contributing to the anthropology of indigenous Australia whilst attending to its theoretical, methodological and political concerns. As such, it will appeal not only to anthropologists but also to those interested in social inequality, the social and psychosocial consequences of death, and the conceptualization and manipulation of the relationships between the living and the dead.

General

Imprint:	Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific
Release date:	2009
First published:	2009
Editors:	Katie Glaskin
Authors:	Myrna Tonkinson • Victoria Burbank
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	264
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-7546-7449-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Indigenous peoples Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Customs & folklore > Customs Promotions
LSN:	0-7546-7449-5
Barcode:	9780754674498

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