Suicide as a dramatic performance / David Lester, Steven Stack editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lester, David, 1942- editor.

Stack, Steven, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suicide--Case studies.

Suicide.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

345 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Transaction Publishers, [2015]

Contents:

Introduction

Ritual, dramatic performance, and suicide : an anthropological perspective / Joseph Rubenstein

The suicide note

The presentation of the self in suicide notes / David Lester & Bijou Yang

Dramatic suicide notes / David Lester

The body as a suicide note / David Lester

Suicide and the communicative condition : audience and the idea of suicide / Jerome Martinez

The location of the suicidal act

The location of the suicidal act / Steven Stack

Suicide away from home / Steven Stack

Hotel suicide and the drug subculture / Steven Stack

Back to nature: suicide in natural areas / Steven Stack

Suicide in the grand canyon national park / Steven Stack & Barbara Bowman

Suicide in public / David Lester

Suicide on television and online / David Lester

The method chosen for suicide

The method chosen for suicide / David Lester

The rehearsal : non-fatal suicidal behavior as a precipitant of suicide / John F. Gunn III

Suicide by fire : ethnicity as a predictor of self-immolation in the united states / Steven Stack & Seth B. Abrutyn

Have gun, will travel / teven Stack

Unusual suicides / Steven Stack

Methods of suicide around the world / Steven Stack

Cultural scripts for suicide

Russian roulette and duels / David Lester

Death by seppuku / David Lester

Self-immolation as a protest / David Lester

Victim-precipitated homicide / David Lester

Sati / David Lester

Suicide as the liberation of the soul / David Lester

Conclusions

Conclusion / David Lester and Steven Stack.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9781412856942

1412856949

OCLC:

908250378