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Grief, mourning, and death ritual / edited by Jenny Hockey, Jeanne Katz, Neil Small.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Facing death
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Death--Social aspects.
- Death.
- Bereavement.
- Grief.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies.
- Thanatology.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 286 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Buckingham [England] ; Philadelphia, PA : Open University Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- This book focuses on what happens after a death has taken place. Drawing on social theory and anthropology, contributors examine responses to death as they occur within the unique set of cultural, social and historical circumstances which characterize post-war society.
- Contents:
- 1 Theories of grief: a critical review / Neil Small 19
- 2 Is grief an illness? Issues of theory in relation to cultural diversity and the grieving process / Caroline Currer 49
- 3 Four siblings' perspectives on parent death: a family focus / Miriam S. Moss, Sidney Z. Moss 61
- 4 'Naturalizing' death among older adults in residential care / Carol Komaromy, Jenny Hockey 73
- 5 Just an old-fashioned love song or a 'harlequin romance'? Some experiences of widowhood / Jane Littlewood 82
- 6 Discourse into practice: the production of bereavement care / Neil Small, Jenny Hockey 97
- 7 The skills we need: bereavement counselling and governmentality in England / Arnar Arnason 125
- 8 'You have to get inside the person' or making grief private: image and metaphor in the therapeutic reconstruction of bereavement / Michael Anderson 135
- 9 Supporting bereaved children at school / Jeanne Katz 144
- 10 The Child Death Helpline / Jean Simons 158
- 11 A place for my child: the evolution of a candle service / Jo Heslop 174
- 12 Changing death rituals / Jenny Hockey 185
- 13 Funeral ritual past and present / Phil Gore 212
- 14 Forget me not: memorialization in cemeteries and crematoria / Mary Bradbury 218
- 15 The cemetery: the evidence of continuing bonds / Doris Francis, Leonie Kellaher, Georgina Neophytou 226
- 16 Hindu death and mourning rituals: the impact of geographic mobility / Shirley Firth 237
- 17 Grieving in public / Glennys Howarth 247
- 18 Post-disaster rituals / Anne Eyre 256.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 033520502X
- 0335205011
- OCLC:
- 44089283
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