Ultimate ambiguities
Subtitle: investigating death and liminality
By: edited by Peter Berger and Justin Kroesen
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781782386094; 9781782386100
Subjects: Liminality; Death; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Ambiguity of Mortal Remains, Substitute Bodies, and other Materializations of the Dead among the Garo of Northeast India / Erik de Maaker; title: Structures and Processes of Liminality : The Shape of Mourning among the Sora of Tribal India / Piers Vitebsky; title: Liminal Bodies, Liminal Food : Hindu and Tribal Death Rituals Compared / Peter Berger; title: The Liminality of "Living Martyrdom" : Suicide Bombers' Preparations for Paradise / Pieter G. T. Nanninga; title: Disappearance and Liminality : Argentina's Mourning of State Terror / Antonius C.G.M. Robben; title: Three Dimensions of Liminality in the Context of Kyrgyz Death Rituals / Roland Hardenberg; title: Death, Ritual, and Effervescence / Peter Berger; title: Hungry Ghost or Divine Soul? : Post-Mortem Initiation in Medieval Shaiva Tantric Death Rites / Nina Mirnig; title: Between Death and Judgement : Sleep as the Image of Death in Early Modern Protestantism / Justin Kroesen and Jan R. Luth; title: Body and Soul Between Death and Funeral in Archaic Greece / Jan N. Bremmer; title: Death, Memory and Liminality : Rethinking Lampedusa's Later Life as Author and Aristocrat / Yme B. Kuiper.