Human beings are grieving animals. ‘Consolation’, or an attempt to assuage grief, is an age-old response to loss which has various expressions in different cultural contexts. Over the past century, consolation has dropped off the West’s cultural r...Loe edasi...
Human beings are grieving animals. ‘Consolation’, or an attempt to assuage grief, is an age-old response to loss which has various expressions in different cultural contexts. Over the past century, consolation has dropped off the West’s cultural r...Loe edasi...
In this volume scholars in the broad, interdisciplinary field of thanatology afford valuable insights in changing European death ways. The first part presents studies on a conceptual level for various aspects of death studies. In a second segment dif...Loe edasi...
Although conflict is a normal aspect of human life, mass media technologies are changing the dynamics of conflict and shaping strategies for deploying rituals. Rituals can provoke or escalate conflict; they can also mediate it. Media representations...Loe edasi...
Ronald L. Grimes, Ute Husken, Udo Simon, Eric Venbrux
Sari: Oxford Ritual Studies Series
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2011, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199735235)
Although conflict is a normal aspect of human life, mass media technologies are changing the dynamics of conflict and shaping strategies for deploying rituals. Rituals can provoke or escalate conflict; they can also mediate it. Media representations...Loe edasi...
Anthropologist Ad Borsboom devoted his academic careerfrom 1972 onwards to the transmission of cultural knowledge.Borsboom handed the insights he acquired during many years offieldwork among Australian Aborigines on to other academics,students, and t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Sep-1995, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521473514)
A compelling extended case study of the social and legal ramifications of a homicide in a Tiwi community. This compelling book is an extended case study of the social and legal ramifications of a homicide in a Tiwi community. The author gives...Loe edasi...
A compelling extended case study of the social and legal ramifications of a homicide in a Tiwi community. This compelling book is an extended case study of the social and legal ramifications of a homicide in a Tiwi community. The author gives...Loe edasi...
