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Grave matters : a lively history of death around the world / Nigel Barley.
Penn Museum Library GT3150 .B34 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barley, Nigel.
- Standardized Title:
- Dancing on the grave
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Funeral rites and ceremonies--Cross-cultural studies.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies.
- Death--Social aspects--Cross-cultural studies.
- Death.
- Death--Social aspects.
- Cross-cultural studies.
- Physical Description:
- 240 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : H. Holt, 1997.
- Summary:
- The one universal fact of life is death. Yet different cultures define and react to death so variously that it ceases to be a common experience and becomes the foremost example of the exuberant inventiveness of human culture. GRAVE MATTERS examines humankind's deathways around the world. 16-page photo insert.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Dancing on the grave. Great Britain : J. Murray.
- "A John Macrae book."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-232) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0805048243
- OCLC:
- 36877430
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