Overview
- Cross-cultural perspectives
- Accessible but based on current scholarship
- Deals with the period before death and not just with death and funerals
Part of the book series: Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science (SACH, volume 9)
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Death and Cultures
- Dying in Non-Western Cultures
- Mourning in Non-Western Cultures
- Burial in Non-Western Cultures
- Funerals in Cultures
- Indigenous People and Death
- Death Industry
- Animism
- Alaskan natives
- Medicalization
- Good death
- Native Hawaiian
- American Indians
- Fear of death and dying
- Dignity in death
- area studies
About this book
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 Australia and North America. These chapters address changes in death rituals and beliefs, medicalization and the industry of death, and the different ways cultures mediate the impacts of modernity. Comparative studies with the west and among countries are included. This book brings together global research conducted by anthropologists, social scientists and scholars who work closely with individuals from the cultures they are writing about.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Helaine Selin was a Faculty Associate and Science Librarian at Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, from which she retired in 2012. She is the editor of the Encyclopedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures (3rd ed. Springer 2016) and seven books in Springer’s Science Across Cultures series, on Astronomy, Mathematics, Medicine, Nature, Childbirth, Parenting, and Happiness.
Robert M. Rakoff, emeritus professor of politics and environmental studies at Hampshire College, received his B.A. from Oberlin College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Washington in the U.S.
He taught at the University of Illinois/Chicago and worked for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development before coming to Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts in 1979.
His teaching and research interests include environmental history and policy; the politics of land use; US welfare policy; the culturalconstruction of nature; creative non-fiction writing about the outdoors; and the political economy of farming and rural life.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Death Across Cultures
Book Subtitle: Death and Dying in Non-Western Cultures
Editors: Helaine Selin, Robert M. Rakoff
Series Title: Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18826-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-18825-2Published: 12 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-18828-3Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-18826-9Published: 01 July 2019
Series ISSN: 1568-2145
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1761
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 389
Number of Illustrations: 60 b/w illustrations
Topics: Anthropology, Geriatrics/Gerontology, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary, Aging, Cultural Studies, Area Studies