Death Customs: an Analytical Study of Burial Rites (1930) - Softcover

Bendann, Effie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0766166457 ISBN 13: 9780766166455

Publisher: Kessinger Publishing Co, 2003

Synopsis

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

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Synopsis

Miss Bendann's book is what it purports to be: an analytical study of burial rites. With commendable courage, the author launches into a comparative investigation of a type which for some time has been out of fashion. In a historical introduction, the author deals rather cavalierly with some outstanding representatives, living and dead, of anthropological theory. Then the author plunges into a study based on an intensive investigation of burial rites and associated ideas in Melanesia, Australia, Northeast Siberia and India, where the Vedic conceptions receive particular attention. Here and there, as when commenting upon the universality of the notion that death is unnatural, the author draws her material from a much wider geographical range.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0766166457
• ISBN 13: 9780766166455
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320