A01=Glennys Howarth
Author_Glennys Howarth
body preparation
Category=JHBZ
Category=JHMC
corpse management
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ethnographic study of funeral work
funeral business operations
grief rituals
sociocultural death customs
thanatology
Product details
- ISBN 9780895033451
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jun 1996
- Publisher: Baywood Publishing Company Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book examines death rituals and the social significance of undertaking in western society and presents an ethnographic account of funeral directing in an area of east London which, for the purposes of anonymity. It is concerned with undertakers' perceptions and organization of death rituals.
