Celebrations of death : the anthropology of mortuary ritual

Peter Metcalf, Richard Huntington

This revised edition of a cross-cultural study of rituals surrounding death has become a standard text in anthropology, sociology and religion. Part of its fascination is that in understanding other people's death rituals we are able to gain a better understanding of our own. The authors refer to a wide variety of examples, from different continents and epochs. They compare the great tombs of the Berawan of Borneo and the pyramids of Egypt, as well as the dramas of medieval French royal funerals and the burial alive of the Dinka 'masters of the spear' in the Sudan, and other rituals which at first sight seem to have little in common. Many of these cases are anthropological classics, but the authors place them in an alternative context, so as to shape a novel synthesis on the anthropology of death ritual. A fresh introduction reviews theoretical developments in the field since the book first appeared in 1979.

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[目次]

  • List of illustrations
  • Preface
  • Introduction to the second edition
  • 1. Preliminaries
  • Part I. Universals and Culture: 2. Emotional reactions to death
  • 3. Symbolic associations of death
  • Part II. Death as Transition: 4. The living and the dead: a re-examination of Hertz
  • 5. Death rituals and life values: rites of passage reconsidered
  • Part III. The Royal Corpse and the Body Politic: 6. The dead king
  • 7. The immortal kingship
  • Part IV. Seeing Ourselves Anew: 8. American deathways
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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書名 Celebrations of death : the anthropology of mortuary ritual
著作者等 Huntington, Richard
Metcalf, Peter
出版元 Cambridge University Press
刊行年月 1991
版表示 2nd ed. / revised, and with a new introduction by Peter Metcalf
ページ数 xiii, 236 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 0521423759
0521413125
NCID BA14292950
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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