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Peter Metcalfe and
Richard Huntington
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Cambridge Univ Pr
Publication date
September 27, 1979
Pages
272
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780521225311
ISBN-10
0521225310
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Out of Print
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$59.95
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university press
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The Hour of Our Death | From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death | Death, Mourning, and Burial | Will the Circle Be Unbroken? | Twice Dead | The Archaeology of Death and Burial | The American Way of Death Revisited
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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 and success is that in understanding other people's death rituals we are able to gain a better understanding of our own. Peter Metcalf and Richard Huntington 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, or the dramas of medieval French royal funerals and the burial alive of the Dinka "masters of the spear" in the Sudan, and other burials which at first sight seem to have little in common. Many of these cases are anthropological classics, and the authors use these examples partly in order to illustrate the many different ways in which anthropologists have tried to interpret these rites. A new introduction reviews theoretical developments in the anthropological study of death since the book first appeared in 1979.
Editions
Hardcover
With Peter Metcalf, Jay Crownover |
2 sub edition from Cambridge Univ Pr (February 1, 1992)
9780521413121 | details & prices | 6.50 × 9.50 × 0.75 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $59.95
This edition also contains Built: Sayer & Zeb
This edition also contains Built: Sayer & Zeb
The price comparison is for this edition
With Peter Metcalfe |
1 edition from Cambridge Univ Pr (September 27, 1979)
9780521225311 | details & prices | 272 pages | List price $59.95
About: This revised edition of a cross-cultural study of rituals surrounding death has become a standard text in anthropology, sociology, and religion.
About: This revised edition of a cross-cultural study of rituals surrounding death has become a standard text in anthropology, sociology, and religion.
Paperback
With Peter Metcalfe |
from Cambridge Univ Pr (September 27, 1979)
9780521295406 | details & prices | 272 pages | List price $16.95
About: This revised edition of a cross-cultural study of rituals surrounding death has become a standard text in anthropology, sociology, and religion.
About: This revised edition of a cross-cultural study of rituals surrounding death has become a standard text in anthropology, sociology, and religion.
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