Dying and death in 18th-21st century Europe. Volume 2 (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Marius Rotar, Adriana Teodorescu and Corina Rotar.
• Editors: Rotar, Marius; Teodorescu, Adriana; Rotar, Corina
• Contents: Table of contents; fear and the unknown; ethnography; communication with the deadand feminine ecstatic experiencein south and south-westernrural romania; lithuanian funeral customs duringthe end of the 19th-21st centuries; two different burial ritualsin the same village of romania; diving into the silence; history; the reinvention of protestantfuneral ceremoniesin nineteenth-century germany; lay saints; german widowsof the first world war; changes in funeral customs; esotericism and death; cremation in communist romania; philosophy, literature, music. Life as form or as energy in the utopianapproach of the enlightenmentcoping mechanismsfor the perception of finitude1; sense and reference of death; commemorating deathin (european) artistic music; attitudes upon death; upon the imaginaryof cremation in romania; the observation of the unobservable; the influence of cultureand traditions on attitudestoward dying and death; the dynamics of contemporarywestern death trends; for whom the bell tolls?finnish lower courts rulingson female suicides' manner of burialin the late 19th century; bereveament and euthanasia. Grieving alone?towards an understandingof the experienceof bereaved single parentsbioethical aspects of the questionof "good" death (euthanasia)in contemporary world; home memorialsafter stillbirths in sweden; contributors; index.
• Publisher Details: Newcastle upon Tyne [England] : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication Date: 2014
• Copyright Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (496 pages), photographs
• Subjects: 320.6; Coping with death & bereavement; History, Modern -- 21st century -- Sources; Death -- Europe -- History; Thanatology -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Attitude to Death -- Germany; Death -- Europe -- History; History, Modern -- 21st century -- Sources; Thanatology -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture; Death; History, Modern; Thanatology; Sociology: death & dying; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Europe; Electronic books; Handbooks and manuals; History; Sources
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781443857468; 1443857467
• Related ISBNs: 9781443855471
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 31, 2014).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.