End-of-Life Rituals (Celebrations & Rituals S.) - Hardcover

Bardi, Matilde; Chambers, Catherine; Ganeri, Anita; Moore, Claire; Senker, Cath; Weber, Paige

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1842342118 ISBN 13: 9781842342114

Publisher: Cherrytree Books, 2003

Synopsis

Celebrations and Rituals introduces the wide variety of customs and traditions that feature in people's lives around the world. Each book describes the activities, beliefs and festivals that mark life events, seasons or other special times in cultures, ranging from Europe to the Far East. End-of-Life Rituals looks at beliefs and traditions related to death. Learn how the elaborate burial ceremonies of ancient cultures compare to the simple funerals of today's Islamic cultures. Find out about other festivals celebrating death, including the Mexican "Dia de los Muertos" and the "Hungry Ghost" festival where the Chinese entertain and feed the lonely spirits that no one cares about.

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Review:

An enormous and wide-ranging amount of data is contained inside the 5 titles in this series. I recommend readers to pick at the text like magpies - your reqard will be juicy titbits about the night of the radishes, gay unicorns, the togu na, and the bread of the dead. Absolutely fascinating stuff this! --The Times Educational Supplement

Synopsis:

Each of the highly illustrated titles in this great new series introduces customs and traditions that are observed to mark special events in the lives of individuals and groups. Separate sections in each book present the activities and beliefs around a particular life event, season, or other special time typical of cultures in the Far East, south and central Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas, Africa and Australasia and Oceania.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cherrytree Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1842342118
• ISBN 13: 9781842342114
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 48