ISBN:
1527507572
,
9781527507579
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 276 pages)
,
illustrations
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Death on the move
DDC:
305.906912094
Keywords:
Burial Social aspects
;
History
;
Immigrants Social life and customs
;
Dead Social aspects
;
Immigrants Social conditions
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
;
Dead ; Social aspects
;
Emigration and immigration
;
Immigrants ; Social conditions
;
Immigrants ; Social life and customs
;
History
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
;
History
;
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
;
Sociology
;
Europe, Southern Emigration and immigration
;
Southern Europe
Abstract:
This volume explores the different aspects of the management of death, dying and mortality by migrants in Southern Europe, through deconstructing persistent idiosyncratic beliefs, myths, narratives, silences, and constraints. It focuses on migrants from diverse geographical and cultural backgrounds in Portugal, Spain and Italy. It also includes reflections on Madagascar, Guinea-Bissau, East-Timor and Cuba. The thirteen chapters provide insights into epistemological issues, the trans-national circulation of bodies, spirits and rituals, migration, the placing of the dead and diverse funerary pra
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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