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Death, Ritual, and Bereavement (Hardcover)
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Death, Ritual, and Bereavement (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Ritual
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Originally published in 1989, Death, Ritual and Bereavement
examines the social history of death and dying from 1500 to the
1930s. This edited collection focuses on the death-bed, funerals,
burials, mourning customs, and the expression of grief. The essays
throw fresh light on developments which lie at the roots of
present-day tendencies to minimize or conceal the most unpleasant
aspects of death, among them the growing participation of doctors
in the management of death-beds in the eighteenth century and the
creation of extra-mural cemeteries, followed by the introduction of
cremation in the nineteenth century. The volume also underlines the
importance of religious belief, in helping the bereaved in past
times. The book will appeal to students and academics of family and
social history as well as history of medicine, religion and
anthropology.
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