ISBN:
9781443868594
,
1443868590
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource
,
illustrations
Parallel Title:
Print version Rituals of death and dying in modern and ancient Greece
DDC:
305.4
Keywords:
Women and death History
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Greece
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Death Social aspects
;
Greece
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Funeral rites and ceremonies Social aspects
;
Greece
;
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient Social aspects
;
Greece
;
Greeks Funeral customs and rites
;
Women and death History
;
Death Social aspects
;
Funeral rites and ceremonies Social aspects
;
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient Social aspects
;
Greeks Funeral customs and rites
;
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient Social aspects
;
Greeks Funeral customs and rites
;
Funeral rites and ceremonies Social aspects
;
Death Social aspects
;
Women and death History
;
Death Social aspects
;
Greece
;
Funeral rites and ceremonies Social aspects
;
Greece
;
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient Social aspects
;
Greece
;
Greeks Funeral customs and rites
;
Women and death History
;
Greece
;
History
;
Cultural studies
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Gender studies: women
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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Death ; Social aspects
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Women and death
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History
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Greece
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Multidisciplinary or post-disciplinary research is what is needed when dealing with such complex subjects as ritual behaviour. This research, therefore, combines ethnography with historical sources to examine the relationship between modern Greek death rituals and ancient written and visual sources on the subject of death and gender. The central theme of this work is women's role in connection with the cult of the dead in ancient and modern Greece. The research is based on studies in ancient history combined with the author's fieldwork and anthropological analysis of today's Mediterranean soci
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
