The human encounter with death : an anthropological approach

The thesis explores the quality of death-related experience, that is the semantic resonance of acts, events and utterances taking place in time and space framed predominantly by death. It draws on an anthropological/hermeneutic understanding that meaning arises out of the relationship between an act...

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Main Author: Hockey, J.
Published: Durham University 1986
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301
Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.375545