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Ultimate Ambiguities

Investigating Death and Liminality
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
292 Seiten
Englisch
Berghahn Bookserschienen am12.05.2020
Although dying can be seen as the paradigm of liminality, because periods of transition are often associated with death, many volumes on death in the social sciences do not specifically address liminality. This book investigates these ultimate ambiguities as crucial periods of creativity, change, and emergent aspects of social and religious life.mehr
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KlappentextAlthough dying can be seen as the paradigm of liminality, because periods of transition are often associated with death, many volumes on death in the social sciences do not specifically address liminality. This book investigates these ultimate ambiguities as crucial periods of creativity, change, and emergent aspects of social and religious life.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-78920-759-0
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2020
Erscheinungsdatum12.05.2020
Seiten292 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 152 mm, Höhe 229 mm, Dicke 16 mm
Gewicht427 g
Artikel-Nr.55434282

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroductionPeter BergerPART I: RITUALSChapter 1. The Ambiguity of Mortal Remains, Substitute Bodies, and other Materializations of the Dead among the Garo of Northeast India Erik de MaakerChapter 2. Structures and Processes of Liminality: The Shape of Mourning among the Sora of Tribal IndiaPiers VitebskyChapter 3. Liminal Bodies, Liminal Food: Hindu and Tribal Death Rituals ComparedPeter BergerChapter 4. The Liminality of Living Martyrdom : Suicide Bombers´ Preparations for Paradise Pieter G. T. NanningaPART II: CONCEPTSChapter 5. Disappearance and Liminality: Argentina´s Mourning of State TerrorAntonius C.G.M. RobbenChapter 6. Three Dimensions of Liminality in the Context of Kyrgyz Death Rituals Roland HardenbergChapter 7. Death, Ritual, and Effervescence Peter BergerPART III: IMAGERIESChapter 8. Hungry Ghost or Divine Soul? Post-Mortem Initiation in Medieval Shaiva Tantric Death Rites Nina MirnigChapter 9. Between Death and Judgement: Sleep as the Image of Death in Early Modern Protestantism Justin Kroesen and Jan R. LuthChapter 10. Body and Soul Between Death and Funeral in Archaic Greece Jan N. BremmerChapter 11. Death, Memory and Liminality. Rethinking Lampedusa´s Later Life as Author and Aristocrat   Yme B. KuiperNotes on Contributorsmehr

Autor

Peter Berger is Associate Professor of Indian Religions and the Anthropology of Religion at the University of Groningen. His books include Feeding, Sharing and Devouring: Ritual and Society in Highland Odisha (de Gruyter, 2015), The Modern Anthropology of India (co-ed with Frank Heidemann, Routledge, 2013) and Godroads: Modalities of Conversion in India (co-ed with Sarbeswar Sahoo, Cambridge University Press, 2020).
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