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Ultimate Ambiguities: Investigating Death and Liminality

Ultimate Ambiguities: Investigating Death and Liminality

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AnthropologyDeath & Dying

ISBN10: 1782386092
ISBN13: 9781782386094
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Nov 1 2015
Pages: 290
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Periods of transition are often symbolically associated with death, making the latter the paradigm of liminality. Yet, many volumes on death in the social sciences and humanities do not specifically address liminality. This book investigates these ultimate ambiguities, assuming they can pose a threat to social relationships because of the disintegrating forces of death, but they are also crucial periods of creativity, change, and emergent aspects of social and religious life. Contributors explore death and liminality from an interdisciplinary perspective and present a global range of historical and contemporary case studies outlining emotional, cognitive, artistic, social, and political implications.

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