Death in the Early Twenty-first Century : Authority, Innovation, and Mortuary Rites

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Boret, Sébastien Penmellen (Editor), Long, Susan Orpett (Editor), Kan, Sergei (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Religion and sociology.; Ethnology.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319523651
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-52365-1
• Physical Description: XI, 295 p. 15 illus. online resource.

Focusing on tradition, technology, and authority, this volume challenges classical understandings that mortuary rites are inherently conservative. The contributors examine innovative and enduring ideas and practices of death, which reflect and constitute changing patterns of social relationships, me...