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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Grief and Mourning"”.
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The Call of the Buffalo: Exploring Kinship with the Buffalo in Indigenous Creative Expression
… kinship relationship between Indigenous peoples and our relative the buffalo. I posit that texts in which Indigenous peoples express their relationship with the buffalo contain expressions of Indigenous epistemologies. Indigenous kinship theory, Indigenous critical geography, and Indigenous …
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Weeping at the grave, we make our song : Alleluia - Lament and thanksgiving in Church of England funerals
… the changing nature of funerals carried in England over the last twenty years and a possible response by Church of England ministers. Those changes are outlined in terms of the changes in venue of funerals, the changes in content and the changes in officials conducting funerals.<br/>As a …
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The funeral : the management of death and its rituals in a Northern industrial city
… in which groups within society process the dead and continue to surround death with rituals. In particular, it addresses itself to a totally neglected area within British sociology, since the last major work, Geoffrey Gorer's Death Grief and Mourning in Contemporary Britain, appeared in 1965. …
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Glorious, Somber Decay: Living with Death in the 21st Century
In today's death industry, many standard burial practices inhibit decomposition and ensure that land used for cemeteries has little ability for adaptation or improved ecological health of the site. Western culture has increasingly disconnected itself from death, often ignoring the inevitable until …
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Ordinary sanctity: grief and the fiction of Marilynne Robinson
Academic research on grief in the West is a twentieth-century phenomenon and until recently has been conducted almost exclusively in the psy- and cognate disciplines. One consequence of this is theory-led scholarship and a persistent set of erroneous assumptions which now pass for clinical lore. …
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Death and Commemoration in Late Medieval Wales
This study examines the attitudes to and commemoration of death in Wales in the period between the end of the thirteenth century and the middle of the sixteenth century by analysis of the poetical work produced during this period. In so doing, this is placed in the wider context of death and …