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The Dead Beat
By: Johnson, Marilyn
Published by: Harper Collins
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.
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Price: $10.95
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Death, Dying and Loss in the 21st Century
By: Kellehear, Allan (ed.)
Published by: eContent Management, Pty Ltd
Some 30 years ago, death was a source of embarrassment, dying was frequently viewed as medical failure, and grief was something you were expected to ‘get over' as quickly as possible. The so-called ‘taboo' on death has slowly turned upside down.
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Price: $99.00
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Death, Mourning, and Burial
By: Robben, Antonius
Published by: Blackwell Publishing, Ltd
In 'Death, Mourning, and Burial', an introduction to the anthropology of death, readers will find a rich selection of some of the finest ethnographic work on this fascinating topic.
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Price: $69.95
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Deeply Into the Bone
By: Grimes, Ronald L.
Published by: University of California Press
Over the past two decades, North Americans have become increasingly interested in understanding and reclaiming the rites that mark significant life passages. In the absence of meaningful rites of passage, we speed through the dangerous intersections of life and often come to regret missing an opportunity to contemplate a child's birth, mark the arrival of maturity, or meditate on the loss of a loved one.
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Price: $15.95
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Destinations
By: Ringer, Greg
Published by: Routledge
Drawing on selected research from Europe, Southeast Asia, the Pacific and North America, this book combines perspectives in human geography and tourism to present cultural landscapes of tourist destinations as socially constructed.
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Price: $200.00
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Dixie's Daughters
By: Cox, Karen L.
Published by: University Press of Florida
''A vital and, until now, missing piece to the puzzle of the 'Lost Cause' ideology and its impact on the daily lives of post-Civil War southerners. This is a careful, insightful examination of the role women played in shaping the perceptions of two generations of southerners, not simply through rhetoric but through the creation of a remarkably effective organization whose leadership influenced the teaching of history in the schools, created a landscape of monuments that honored the Confederate dead, and provided assistance to elderly veterans, their widows, and their children.
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Price: $55.00
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Dream-Singers: The African-American Way with Dreams
By: Shafton, Anthony
Published by: John Wiley & Sons, Inc
A belief in the power of dreams runs through African-American life like a mystical thread, predicting the future, offering a glimpse of lost loved ones, informing decisions, and inspiring literature. Anthony Shafton distills a long time fascination with dreams into a seminal study of their place in black culture. More than 100 African Americans, both famous - such as literary lions John Edgar Wideman and Gloria Naylor - and ordinary men, women, and children, share their personal dream life and discuss its significance. Illuminating a wonderful variety of dreams, this book offers every reader insight into a centuries-old spiritual tradition.
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Evolving God
By: King, Barbara J.
Published by: Doubleday Publishing
This cutting-edge book—with echoes of both Jane Goodall and Joseph Campbell—adds a fascinating new dimension to the debate about the origins of religion. The study of evolution has uncovered invaluable information about many aspects of human behavior and culture, from the physiology of our bodies and brains to the development of hunting, technology, and social groups.
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Fertility Goddesses, Groundhog Bellies and the Coca-Cola Company
By: Kalapos, Gabriella
Published by: Insomniac Library
Year after year, many of us continue to perform holiday rituals with little or no understanding of what they mean or what purpose they serve. A part of us yearns to understand how and why these special days originated. Why does Groundhog Day exist and what does it have to do with the Virgin Mary and menstruation? What does May Day have to do with a celebration of human sexuality and Roman prostitutes? Where did Valentine's Day come from — did the greeting card, chocolate, and florist companies create it, or is there something original, pure, and maybe even carnal about it?
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Formations of Ritual
By: Scott, David
Published by: University of Minnesota Press
Yaktovil is an elaborate healing ceremony employed by Sinhalas in Sri Lanka to dispel the effects of the eyesight of a pantheon of malevolent supernatural figures known as yakku. Scott’s investigation of yaktovil and yakku within the Sinhala cosmology is also an inquiry into the ways in which anthropology, by ignoring the discursive history of the rituals, religions, and relationships it seeks to describe, tends to reproduce ideological—often, specifically colonial—objects.
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Price: $66.00
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