Representations of Death
Subtitle: A Social Psychological Perspective
Publisher: Routledge
Published: November 30, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780415150217
First sentence: Driving though London recently on a busy working day I came across a funeral cortege sedately making its way to the local crematorium.
Description: Drawing upon a rare and highly original ethnography of mortuary practices in the 1990s, this book takes the reader through the medical, bureaucratic, commercial and ritual aspects of death.