On Our Way : The Final Passage through Life and Death
Robert. Kastenbaum
Bok Engelsk 2004 · Electronic books.
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Utgitt | Berkeley : : University of California Press, , 2004.
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Omfang | 1 online resource (461 p.)
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Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - CONTENTS; 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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z. - 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 cryostasis in the hope of eluding the reality of the inevitable end. In this book a preeminent and eminently wise writer on death and dying proposes a new way of understanding our last transition. A fresh exploration of the final passage through life and perhaps through death, his work deftly interweaves historical and contemporary ex
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Emner | Death - Psychological aspects
Death - Social aspects Future life Psychology Vis mer... Social Sciences
døden ritualer seremonier tradisjoner historie sosiologi antropologi sosialantropologi |
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ISBN | 0520218809
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