1. The study of death : a social psychological approach -- 2. Researching death : an urban ethnography -- 3. Medicine and bureaucracy -- 4. Commerce and ritual -- 5. The body -- 6. Social representations of death -- 7. Social representations of loss -- 8. Re-presenting death
Summary
Drawing upon a rare and highly original ethnography of mortuary practices in the 1990s, this book takes the reader through the medical, bureaucratic, commercial and ritual aspects of death
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-216) and index
