On our way : the final passage through life and death /
Publisher's description: How do our ideas about dying influence the way we live? Life has often been envisioned as a journey, the river of time carrying us inexorably toward the unknown country--and in our day we increasingly turn to myth and magic, ritual and virtual reality, cloning and cryos...
| Основен автор: | Kastenbaum, Robert. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press,
℗♭2004.
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| Серия: |
Life passages.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=295116 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
On our way. |
Съдържание:
- List of illustrations
- 1.
- Here we are
- 2.
- Practicing death : some rituals of everyday life
- 3.
- Good death, bad death (I) : in other times and places
- 4.
- Good death, bad death (II) : here and now
- 5.
- Corpsed persons
- 6.
- Abusing and eating the dead
- 7.
- Too many dead : the plague and other mass deaths
- 8.
- Down to earth and up in flames
- 9.
- Journey of the dead
- 10.
- Living through
- Notes
- Sources cited
- Index.