Ultimate Ambiguities
Investigating Death and Liminality
Periods of transition are often symbolically associated with death, making the latter the paradigm of liminality. Yet, many volumes on death in the social sciences and humanities do not specifically address liminality. This book investigates these ultimate ambiguities, assuming they can pose a threat to social relationships because of the disintegrating forces of death, but they are also crucial periods of creativity, change, and emergent aspects of social and religious life. Contributors explore death and liminality from an interdisciplinary perspective and present a global range of historical and contemporary case studies outlining emotiona…
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Weitere Autoren: Kroesen, Justin (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-78238-609-4
- EAN: 9781782386094
- Produktnummer: 19318300
- Verlag: Berghahn Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 292 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.0 cm 579 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 579
Über den Autor
Peter Berger is Associate Professor of Indian Religions and the Anthropology of Religion at the University of Groningen. His books include Feeding, Sharing and Devouring: Ritual and Society in Highland Odisha (de Gruyter, 2015), The Modern Anthropology of India (co-ed with Frank Heidemann, Routledge, 2013) and Godroads: Modalities of Conversion in India (co-ed with Sarbeswar Sahoo, Cambridge University Press, 2020).
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