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Paperback Mirrors of Mortality (Routledge Revivals): Social Studies in the History of Death Book

ISBN: 041561872X

ISBN13: 9780415618724

Mirrors of Mortality (Routledge Revivals): Social Studies in the History of Death

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First published in 1981, this reissue examines mankind's preoccupation with death and mortality by isolating various societies in different periods of time. The authors examine not only the formal rituals associated with the last rite of passage, but also the social attitudes to death and dying which these rituals evidence. The essays establish that different periods do seem to be characterized by different images of death and attitudes to it,...

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