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1 online resource (496 pages) : photographs |
| Contents |
Table of contents; fear and the unknown; ethnography; communication with the deadand feminine ecstatic experiencein south and south-westernrural romania; lithuanian funeral customs duringthe end of the 19th-21st centuries; two different burial ritualsin the same village of romania; diving into the silence; history; the reinvention of protestantfuneral ceremoniesin nineteenth-century germany; lay saints; german widowsof the first world war; changes in funeral customs; esotericism and death; cremation in communist romania; philosophy, literature, music |
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Life as form or as energy in the utopianapproach of the enlightenmentcoping mechanismsfor the perception of finitude1; sense and reference of death; commemorating deathin (european) artistic music; attitudes upon death; upon the imaginaryof cremation in romania; the observation of the unobservable; the influence of cultureand traditions on attitudestoward dying and death; the dynamics of contemporarywestern death trends; for whom the bell tolls?finnish lower courts rulingson female suicides' manner of burialin the late 19th century; bereveament and euthanasia |
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Grieving alone?towards an understandingof the experienceof bereaved single parentsbioethical aspects of the questionof "good" death (euthanasia)in contemporary world; home memorialsafter stillbirths in sweden; contributors; index |
| Summary |
This book features the second selection of the most representative papers presented at the international conference ""Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe"" (ABDD), a traditional scientific event organized every year in Alba Iulia, Romania. The book invites the reader on a fascinating journey across the last three centuries of Europe, using the concept of death as a guide. The past and present realities of the complex phenomena of death and dying in Romania, the United Kingdom, Lithuani .. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 31, 2014) |
| Subject |
History, Modern -- 21st century -- Sources
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Death -- Europe -- History
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Thanatology -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Coping with death & bereavement.
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Sociology: death & dying.
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Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Death.
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History, Modern.
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Thanatology.
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Europe.
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals.
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History.
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Sources.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rotar, Marius, editor
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Teodorescu, Adriana, editor
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Rotar, Corina, editor
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| ISBN |
9781443857468 |
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1443857467 |
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