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Cemetery Stories: Haunted Graveyards, Embalming Secrets, and the Life of a Corpse After Death
ISBN: 9780060185183 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Never look at a grave the same way again
Admit it: You're fascinated by cemeteries. We all die, and for most of us, a cemetery is our final resting place. But how many people really know what goes on inside, around, and beyond them? Enter the world of the dead as Katherine Ramsland talks to mortuary assistants, gravediggers, funeral home owners, and more, and find out about:
Never look at a grave the same way again
Admit it: You're fascinated by cemeteries. We all die, and for most of us, a cemetery is our final resting... |
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63,50 zł |
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The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries
ISBN: 9780060758769 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Marilyn Johnson was enthralled by the remarkable lives that were marching out of this world--so she sought out the best obits in the English language and the people who spent their lives writing about the dead. She surveyed the darkest corners of Internet chat rooms, and made a pilgrimage to London to savor the most caustic and literate obits of all. Now she leads us on a compelling journey into the cult and culture behind the obituary page and the unusual lives we don't quite appreciate until they're gone. Marilyn Johnson was enthralled by the remarkable lives that were marching out of this world--so she sought out the best obits in the English langua... |
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59,60 zł |
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Remember Me: A Lively Tour of the New American Way of Death
ISBN: 9780060766849 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In Remember Me, Time writer Lisa Takeuchi Cullen has created a humorous and poignant chronicle of her travels around the country to discover how Americans are reinventing the rites of dying. What she learned is that people no longer want to take death lying down; instead, they're taking their demise into their own hands and planning the afterparty. Cullen hears stories of modern-day funerals: lobster-shaped caskets and other unconventional containers for corpses; cremated remains turned into diamonds; and even mishaps like dove releases gone horribly wrong.... In Remember Me, Time writer Lisa Takeuchi Cullen has created a humorous and poignant chronicle of her travels around the country ... |
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63,50 zł |
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Final Exits : The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of How We Die
ISBN: 9780060817411 / Angielski / Miękka / 465 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. To die, kick the bucket, to meet your Maker, dead as a doornail, get whacked, smoked, bite the dust, sleep with the fishes, go six feet under--whatever death is called, it's going to happen. In 1789 Ben Franklin wrote, "In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes." Death remains a certainty. But how do we die? It's the enormous variety of how that enlivens final exits. According to death certificates, in 1700 there were less than 100 causes of death. Today there are 3,000. With each advance of technology, people find new ways to become deceased, often causing trends that... To die, kick the bucket, to meet your Maker, dead as a doornail, get whacked, smoked, bite the dust, sleep with the fishes, go six feet under--what... |
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75,22 zł |
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The Portable Obituary: How the Famous, Rich, and Powerful Really Died
ISBN: 9780061231667 / Angielski / Miękka / 281 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. No matter what your station in society, everybody has to go sometime. Even the wealthy, powerful, and world-renowned must ultimately meet their Maker--though some have departed this life more ignobly than they might have wished.
No matter what your station in society, everybody has to go sometime. Even the wealthy, powerful, and world-renowned must ultimately meet their Mak... |
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59,44 zł |
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Studies in Contemporary Jewry: Volume XIV: Coping with Life and Death: Jewish Families in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780195128208 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. How has the Jewish family changed over the course of the twentieth century? How has it remained the same? How do Jewish families see themselves--historically, socially, politically, and economically--and how would they like to be seen by others? This book, the fourteenth volume of Oxford's internationally acclaimed Studies in Contemporary Jewry series, presents a variety of perspectives on Jewish families coping with life and death in the twentieth century. The book is comprised of symposium papers, essays, and review articles of works published on such fundamental subjects as...
How has the Jewish family changed over the course of the twentieth century? How has it remained the same? How do Jewish families see themselves--histo...
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827,61 zł |
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Funerals, Politics, and Memory in Modern France 1789-1996
ISBN: 9780198203285 / Angielski / Twarda / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This is a study of the state funerals that were celebrated in France between the French revolution and the death of Francois Mitterand. It investigates the funerals of such prominent figures as Voltaire, Napoleon, Gambetta, Hugo, and de Gaulle, which became major public events that helped to mold the national memory. The book is the first comprehensive analysis of French state funerals, and also a major contribution to the study of French political culture.
" This is a study of the state funerals that were celebrated in France between the French revolution and the death of Francois Mitterand. It investigate...
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1292,42 zł |
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Biblical Mourning : Ritual and Social Dimensions
ISBN: 9780199264865 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A comprehensive analysis of the ritual dimensions of biblical mourning rites, this book also seeks to illuminate mourning's social dimensions through engagement with anthropological discussion of mourning, from Hertz and van Gennep to contemporaries such as Metcalf and Huntington and Bloch and Parry.
A comprehensive analysis of the ritual dimensions of biblical mourning rites, this book also seeks to illuminate mourning's social dimensions through ...
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936,98 zł |
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Time for Dying
ISBN: 9780202308586 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. This book has been written for those who must work with and give care to the dying. Our discussion is not simple narrative or description; it is a "rendition of reality," informed by a rather densely woven and fairly abstract theoretical scheme. This scheme evolved gradually during the course of our research. The second audience for this volume is social scientists who are less interested in dying than they are in useful substantive theory. Our central concern is with the temporal aspects of work. The theory presented here may be useful to social scientists interested in areas far removed... This book has been written for those who must work with and give care to the dying. Our discussion is not simple narrative or description; it is a ... |
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211,27 zł |
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On the Bones of the Serpent: Person, Memory, and Mortality in Sabarl Island Society
ISBN: 9780226038896 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Sabarl island created, in myth, from the bones of a serpent is a coral atoll in the Louisiade archipelago of Papua New Guinea. The Sabarl speak of themselves as true "islanders": persons separated from the means of both physical and social survival. The Sabarl struggle for continuity of the physical and social person and of social relations, of cultureal values, of paternal influence in a matrilineal society is the subject of Debbora Battaglia's sensitive ethnography of loss and reconstruction: the first major work on cultural responses to mortality in the southern Massim culture area and an...
Sabarl island created, in myth, from the bones of a serpent is a coral atoll in the Louisiade archipelago of Papua New Guinea. The Sabarl speak of the...
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140,49 zł |
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The Dominion of the Dead
ISBN: 9780226317939 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. How do the living maintain relations to the dead? Why do we bury people when they die? And what is at stake when we do? In "The Dominion of the Dead, " Robert Pogue Harrison considers the supreme importance of these questions to Western civilization, exploring the many places where the dead cohabit the world of the living-the graves, images, literature, architecture, and monuments that house the dead in their afterlife among us.
This elegantly conceived work devotes particular attention to the practice of burial. Harrison contends that we bury our dead to humanize the lands where we... How do the living maintain relations to the dead? Why do we bury people when they die? And what is at stake when we do? In "The Dominion of the Dead, ...
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65,79 zł |
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And a Time to Die : How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life
ISBN: 9780226426853 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Over the past thirty years, the way Americans experience death has been dramatically altered. The advent of medical technology capable of sustaining life without restoring health has changed where, when, and how we die. In this revelatory study, medical anthropologist Sharon R. Kaufman examines the powerful center of those changes: the hospital, where most Americans die today. She deftly links the experiences of patients and families, the work of hospital staff, and the ramifications of institutional bureaucracy to show the invisible power of the hospital system in shaping death and our...
Over the past thirty years, the way Americans experience death has been dramatically altered. The advent of medical technology capable of sustaining l...
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98,16 zł |
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The Last Word : Women, Death, and Divination in Inner Mani
ISBN: 9780226748764 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Based on years of fieldwork in both rural and urban Greece, "The Last Word" explores women's cultural resistance as they weave together diverse social practices: improvised antiphonic laments, divinatory dreaming, the care and tending of olive trees and the dead, and the inscription of emotions and the senses on a landscape of persons, things, and places. These practices compose the empowering poetics of the cultural periphery. C. Nadia Seremetakis liberates the analysis of gender from reductive binary models and pioneers the alternative perspective of self-reflexive "native anthropology" in...
Based on years of fieldwork in both rural and urban Greece, "The Last Word" explores women's cultural resistance as they weave together diverse social...
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162,91 zł |
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The Loss of a Life Partner : Narratives of the Bereaved
ISBN: 9780231119689 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Although there is extensive research on the loss of a spouse, predominantly focusing on the experiences of widows, much less attention is paid to bereaved partners not married to their significant other, whether or not the partners are of the same sex. This first-of-its-kind work explores both socially sanctioned and disenfranchised grief, highlighting similarities and differences. Combining a discussion of various theories of grief with personal narratives of grieving men and women drawn from numerous interviews, and detailed case study analysis, Carolyn Ambler Walter has produced a...
Although there is extensive research on the loss of a spouse, predominantly focusing on the experiences of widows, much less attention is paid to bere...
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558,83 zł |
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The Loss of a Life Partner : Narratives of the Bereaved
ISBN: 9780231119696 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Although there is extensive research on the loss of a spouse, predominantly focusing on the experiences of widows, much less attention is paid to bereaved partners not married to their significant other, whether or not the partners are of the same sex. This first-of-its-kind work explores both socially sanctioned and disenfranchised grief, highlighting similarities and differences. Combining a discussion of various theories of grief with personal narratives of grieving men and women drawn from numerous interviews, and detailed case study analysis, Carolyn Ambler Walter has produced a...
Although there is extensive research on the loss of a spouse, predominantly focusing on the experiences of widows, much less attention is paid to bere...
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226,09 zł |
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DEATH AND DYING IN CENTRAL APPALACHIA : CHANGING ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES
ISBN: 9780252063558 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. In Death and Dying in Central Appalachia, James Crissman explores cultural traits related to death and dying in the Appalachian sections of Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, and West Virginia, showing how they have changed since the 1600's. Relying on archival materials, almost forty photographs, and interviews with more than 400 mountain dwellers, Crissman focuses on the importance of familism and 'neighborliness' in mountain society.
In Death and Dying in Central Appalachia, James Crissman explores cultural traits related to death and dying in the Appalachian sections of Tennessee,...
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95,07 zł |
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Eternal Pity : Reflections on Dying
ISBN: 9780268027575 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Drawing upon a vast range of human experience and reflection, this book seeks to demonstrate how people have tried to cope with the inevitability of death. Different cultures teach people to respond to their own death and the death of others in different ways.
Drawing upon a vast range of human experience and reflection, this book seeks to demonstrate how people have tried to cope with the inevitability of d...
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89,53 zł |
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The Sacred Remains : American Attitudes Toward Death, 1799-1883
ISBN: 9780300078688 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. When George Washington died in 1799, towns throughout the country commemorated the event with solemn processions featuring empty coffins. In contrast, after Abraham Lincoln's death in 1865, his body was transported around the North and displayed for more than two weeks, for by then corpses could be autopsied, drained of their blood, and beautified for the benefit of mourners. This absorbing book explores the changing attitudes toward death and the dead in northern Protestant communities during the nineteenth century. Gary Laderman offers insights into the construction of an "American way of...
When George Washington died in 1799, towns throughout the country commemorated the event with solemn processions featuring empty coffins. In contrast,...
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165,93 zł |
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International Handbook of Funeral Customs
ISBN: 9780313304439 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This handbook explores the cultural and religious customs concerning death, burial, and mourning in countries throughout the world and covers all the major religions. At present there are more than 190 independent countries in the world, and the funeral practices in each are closely related to the culture, history and geography of the country concerned. Matsunami examines the ways people living around the world deal with the death of a loved one, and what kind of post-mortem arrangements are made. In doing so, he provides a better understanding of the world's cultures by viewing people's... This handbook explores the cultural and religious customs concerning death, burial, and mourning in countries throughout the world and covers all t... |
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357,33 zł |
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Death's Door : Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve
ISBN: 9780393329698 / Angielski / Miękka / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Prominent critic, poet, and memoirist Sandra M. Gilbert explores our relationship to death though literature, history, poetry, and societal practices. Does death change--and if it does, how has it changed in the last century? And how have our experiences and expressions of grief changed? Did the traumas of Hiroshima and the Holocaust transform our thinking about mortality? More recently, did the catastrophe of 9/11 alter our modes of mourning? And are there at the same time aspects of grief that barely change from age to age? Seneca wrote, "Anyone can stop a man's life but no one his death; a...
Prominent critic, poet, and memoirist Sandra M. Gilbert explores our relationship to death though literature, history, poetry, and societal practices....
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118,03 zł |