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版本

First edition.

载体形态

xiii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Doughty: National/regional group: nat Californians lcdgt

Doughty: Gender group: gdr Women lcdgt

Blair: National/regional group: nat Illinoisians lcdgt

Blair: Gender group: gdr Men lcdgt

书目

Includes bibliographical references.

内容

Colorado: Crestone -- Indonesia: South Sulawesi -- Mexico: Michoacán -- North Carolina: Cullowhee -- Spain: Barcelona -- Japan: Tokyo -- Bolivia: La Paz -- California: Joshua Tree.

摘要

Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. In rural Indonesia, she watches a man clean and dress his grandfather's mummified body, which has resided in the family home for two years. In La Paz, she meets Bolivian natitas (cigarette-smoking, wish-granting human skulls), and in Tokyo she encounters the Japanese kotsuage ceremony, in which relatives use chopsticks to pluck their loved-ones' bones from cremation ashes. Doughty vividly describes decomposed bodies and investigates the world's funerary history. She introduces deathcare innovators researching body composting and green burial, and examines how varied traditions, from Mexico's Días de los Muertos to Zoroastrian sky burial help us see our own death customs in a new light. Doughty contends that the American funeral industry sells a particular -- and, upon close inspection, peculiar -- set of 'respectful' rites: bodies are whisked to a mortuary, pumped full of chemicals, and entombed in concrete. She argues that our expensive, impersonal system fosters a corrosive fear of death that hinders our ability to cope and mourn. By comparing customs, she demonstrates that mourners everywhere respond best when they help care for the deceased, and have space to participate in the process. Illustrated by artist Landis Blair, From Here to Eternity is an adventure into the morbid unknown, a story about the many fascinating ways people everywhere have confronted the very human challenge of mortality.

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主题

Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Cross-cultural studies.

Death -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.

Death -- Psychological aspects.

Cross-cultural studies.

Funeral rites and ceremonies.

Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Cross-cultural studies.

Attitude to Death

Cross-Cultural Comparison

Funeral Rites

Death.

Mourning customs.

Funeral rites and ceremonies.

Undertakers and undertaking.

funerals.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs.

SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Death & Dying.

Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Cross-cultural studies.

Death -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs.

SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Death & Dying.

Death.

Mourning customs.

Funeral rites and ceremonies.

Undertakers and undertaking.

Death -- Social aspects.

Funeral Rites.

Cross-Cultural Comparison.

Attitude to Death.

Cross-cultural studies.

Death -- Social aspects.

Funeral rites and ceremonies.

类型/表格

Cross-cultural studies.

其它责任者

Blair, Landis,

国际标准书号

9780393249897 (hardcover)

0393249891

标准号

40027526028

9780393249897 52495