Death Rights and Rites 9780738755397, 2020038054, 2020038055, 9780738748818

Death Rites and Rights 9781472564115, 9781841137322

Death has diverse religious, social, legal, and medical aspects and is one of the main areas in which medicine and the l

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Marriage Rites and Rights 9781782259664, 9781849469135, 9781782259657

Recent years have seen extensive discussion about the continuing retreat from marriage, the increasing demand for the ri

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Birth Rites and Rights 9781472565617, 9781849461887

This multi-disciplinary collection of essays from the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group is concerned with the varying circumst

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Nature's Embrace: Japan's Aging Urbanites and New Death Rites 9780824860882

Based on extensive fieldwork, Nature’s Embrace reveals the emerging pluralization of death rites in postindustrial Japan

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Some Women's Rites and Rights in the Veda

Letures delivered at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute in 1984. In the first lecture s solution of the thorny p

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Death Customs: An Analytical Study of Burial Rites

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Jewish Rights, National Rites: Nationalism and Autonomy in Late Imperial and Revolutionary Russia 9780804793032

In its full-color poster for elections to the All-Russian Jewish Congress in 1917, the Jewish People's Party depict

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Between Rites and Rights: Excision in Women’s Experiential Texts and Human Contexts 9780804768375

In the past five decades and over three generations, African women writers have introduced a new autobiographical discou

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Death, Ritual and Belief: The Rhetoric of Funerary Rites 9781474250962, 9781474250955, 9781474250986, 9781474250948

Death, Ritual and Belief, now in its third edition, explores many important issues related to death and dying, from a re

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Death and the Maiden: Girls' Initiation Rites in Greek Mythology 0415012635, 9780415012638

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