Kerrigan, Michael

The history of death: burial customs and funeral rites,from the ancient world to modern times/ Michael Kerrigan - Amber Books, 2007. - 192p.


Introduction
Chapter 1: The Beginning or the End: Ideas of Afterlife
Chapter 2: Ancient Funerary Rites
Chapter 3: Death and Judgment
Chapter 4: The Ancestors at Hand
Chapter 5: The Demanding Dead
Chapter 6: Towards Modernity, The Western Tradition
Chapter 7: A World of Rituals
Chapter 8: Death, Present and Future

Bibliography
Index

9781905704590


Death
Burial -- History
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- History

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