The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society
Author: Steven A. Barnes
"Death and Redemption" offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the role of the Gulag - the Soviet Union's vast system of forced-labor camps, internal exile, and prisons - in Soviet society. Soviet authorities undoubtedl ... |
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A Study of the Mortuary Customs of the Lodagaa of West Africa
Author: Jack Goody
Deliberately considering relevant theories put forward by earlier writers and examining them in the light of the research for this particular book, the author spent over 100 days attending funeral ceremonies and he atten ... |
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Author: Claudio Lomnitz
Death and the Idea of Mexico is the first social, cultural, and political history of death in a nation that has made death its tutelary sign. Examining the history of death and of the death sign from sixteenth-century ho ... |
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The World of Kongo Belief
Author: Simon Bockie
"The description of Kongo culture is vivid, beautifully clear, and absolutely authentic, as only a native could make it. The marvelous anecdotes are worth any amount of anthropological summary...I don't know of anything ... |
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Studies in the Demographic History of London, 1670-1830
Author: John Landers
Death and the Metropolis offers a powerful analysis of demographic patterns in London over the 'long eighteenth century', concentrating on mortality but also including data on marital fertility, population structure and ... |
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Studies in the Demographic History of London, 1670-1830
Author: John Landers
Death and the Metropolis offers a powerful analysis of demographic patterns in London over the 'long eighteenth century', concentrating on mortality but also including data on marital fertility, population structure and ... |
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Victorian Fiction and the Anxiety of Origins
Author: Carolyn Dever
The cultural ideal of motherhood in Victorian Britain seems to be undermined by Victorian novels, which almost always represent mothers as incapacitated, abandoning or dead. Carolyn Dever argues that the phenomenon of th ... |
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Author: Maurice Bloch & Jonathan Parry
It is a classical anthropological paradox that symbols of rebirth and fertility are frequently found in funerary rituals throughout the world. The original essays collected here re-examine this phenomenon through insight ... |
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Author: Robert Hertz
First published in English 1960. The historical value of Hertz's writings is that they are a representative example of the culmination of two centuries of development of sociological thought in France, from Montesquieu ... |
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Author: Robert Hertz
This title is first published in English in 1960. The historical value of Hertz's writings is that they are a representative example of the culmination of two centuries of development of sociological thought in France, f ... |
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Research, Instrumentation and Application
Author: Robert A. Neimeyer
Presenting a broad coverage of this major area of studies on death and dying, this book provides a systematic presentation of the six most widely used and best validated measures of death anxiety, threat and fear. These ... |
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Dispatches from Jerusalem
Author: David Grossman
In autumn 1993, the Oslo Agreements were signed by Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, marking the beginning of promise for a constructive peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. The ten years that followed were ch ... |
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The Case for Memorial Murals and Community Healing
Author: Delgado
While crime is down around the country, many inner city youth continue to die as a result of violence, drugs, AIDS, and other causes. In response to the deaths of its young members, many urban communities paint memori ... |
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Author: Adrian Tomer
Death and ageing are two topics not often discussed together in the present literature. This text bridges the fields of gerontology and thanatology. Death attitudes - defined as attitudes towards the dying process, end-o ... |
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Author: Jeanne Safer
When psychotherapist Jeanne Safer lost her mother, she was determined to turn her loss into an opportunity for insight and growth. Through her own experience, her work with patients, and in-depth interviews, Safer shows ... |
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The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights
Author: Erik S. Gellman
During the Great Depression, black intellectuals, labor organizers, and artists formed the National Negro Congress (NNC) to demand a "second emancipation" in America. Over the next decade, the NNC and its offshoot, the S ... |
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The Incredible Truth and Surprising Science Behind 101 Memorable Movie Moments
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Capital Punishment as a Social Psychological System
Author: Craig Haney
How can otherwise normal, moral persons - as citizens, voters, and jurors - participate in a process that is designed to take the life of another? In "Death By Design", research psychologist Craig Haney argues that capit ... |
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Preventing the Murders and Murder-suicides
Author: Katherine S. Van Wormer & Albert R. Roberts
This book examines the most violent form of abuse in an intimate relationship, and steps that should be taken to stop the killing.Each year, about 33 percent of all women and 3 percent of all men murdered in the United S ... |
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How to Keep the Suburbs from Killing Your Soul
Author: Dave L. Goetz
A great number of seekers find themselves in the seemingly unreal world of the suburbs. They read spirituality books but find themselves in carpools and coaching soccer, not in monasteries. Dave Goetz, a former pastor ... |
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