| Edition |
2nd ed. / rev., and with a new introduction by Peter Metcalf. |
| Description |
xiii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Huntington's name appears first on the earlier edition. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-230) and index. |
| Credits |
Huntington's name appears first on the earlier edition. |
| Contents |
Introduction to the second edition -- Ritual and emotion -- Ritual and the polity -- "Life" as a political resource -- The Universal and the particular in symbolism -- Death rituals and exchange -- Reconstructing death rites -- Death and the longue durée -- Death and reflexivity -- I. Preliminaries -- Death in life -- The "Death awareness" movement -- Death ritual and nineteenth-century anthropology -- Durkheim and the sociology of religion -- Van Gennep's rites of passage -- Liminality -- Hertz's study of the secondary burial -- Modern developments of Hertz's thesis -- The format of this book. |
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Part I. Universals and culture -- 2. Emotional reactions to death -- Sentiments and society: Radcliffe-Brown's theory -- Durkheim and the aborigines -- "A Passion of grief": Nyakyusa funerals -- Culture and sentiment -- 3. Symbolic associations of death -- Drumming: symbol of death, liminality, or divinity? -- Ritual actions and daily activities -- Liminality and the corpse -- Rotting, fermenting, dyeing, and distilling -- The Universal and the particular. |
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Part II. Death as transition -- 4. The Living and the dead: a re-examination of Hertz -- The three sides of Hertz's analysis -- An application: Berawan death rites -- Variations on a theme: Ma'anyan, Toradja, Balinese, Iban, and Mambai -- 5. Death rituals and life values: rites of passage reconsidered -- Life themes in death -- Problems with the approaches of Hertz and van Gennep -- Bara life values: order and vitality -- The Bara funeral sequence: burial, gathering, reburial -- Symbolic generation of "vitality" -- Resolution: intercourse and rebirth -- Transition and life. |
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Part III. The Royal corpse and the body politic -- 6. The Dead king -- Royal funerals in the Indic states of Southeast Asia: Thailand and Bali -- Legitimization through death monuments: the Berawan -- Pyramid building and the Pharaonic state -- 7. The Immortal kingship -- The Divine kingship of the Shilluk of the Sudan -- Body politic and body natural -- Le roi est mort! Vive le roi! -- Regicide -- Dinka burial alive. |
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Part IV. Seeing ourselves anew -- 8. American deathways -- Problems in the study of American deathways -- The First paradox: ritual uniformity and indeterminate ideology -- Critiques of the funeral industry -- Fear and guilt: the inadequacy of psychology -- Collective representations of death in America -- The Second paradox: puppet death -- An Indigenous American religion. |
| Summary |
This revised and updated 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-also among a general readership-is that in understanding other people's death rituals we are also able to gain a better understanding of our own. |
| Processing Action |
Self-Renewing 2017 UoY |
| Subject |
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
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Death.
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Attitude to Death. (DNLM)D001293
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Cross-Cultural Comparison. (DNLM)D003431
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Funeral Rites -- history. (DNLM)D005655Q000266
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Death. (OCoLC)fst00888613
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Funeral rites and ceremonies. (OCoLC)fst00936223
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Sterven.
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Riten.
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Morte (costumes)
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Rito de sepultamento.
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Antropologia cult social.
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Attitude to death.
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| Indexed Term |
Death |
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Anthropology and ethnology |
| Added Author |
Huntington, Richard, 1945-
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| ISBN |
0521413125 (hardcover) |
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9780521413121 (hardcover) |
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0521423759 (pbk.) |
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9780521423755 (pbk.) |
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