Death Across Cultures Death and Dying in Non-Western Cultures
Death Across Cultures: Death and Dying in Non-Western Cultures, explores death practices and beliefs, before and after death, around the non-Western world. It includes chapters on countries in Africa, Asia, South America, as well as indigenous people in A
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Helaine Selin Robert M. Rakoff Editors
Death Across Cultures Death and Dying in Non-Western Cultures
SCIENCE ACROSS CULTURES: THE HISTORY OF NON-WESTERN SCIENCE VOLUME 9 DEATH ACROSS CULTURES
Editor HELAINE SELIN, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, USA
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Helaine Selin • Robert M. Rakoff Editors
Death Across Cultures Death and Dying in Non-Western Cultures
Editors Helaine Selin Hampshire College (Retired) Amherst, MA, USA
Robert M. Rakoff Emeritus Professor of Politics and Environmental Studies Hampshire College Amherst, MA, USA
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Introduction
Death is universal. It is a biological given. We all die. But how we die, where we die, how we commemorate death, and how we think about dying and death are as varied as any human practices. Death is local. And culturally structured. But this variety of ways of dying is being transformed by the forces of modernity. Traditional rites and beliefs are being re-shaped by urbanization, the medicalization of dying, the commercialization of funerals, and the spread of Christianity and other aspects of Euro-American colonialism and global capitalism. As people move from villages to cities and enter into urban market life, it becomes more and more difficult to sustain the age-old practices that have brought meaning and order to the chasm and grief of death. Local burial sites are far away, wh
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