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Representations of death : a social psychological perspective / Mary Bradbury ;

Representations of death : a social psychological perspective / Mary Bradbury ; foreword by Rob Farr Softcover - 1999

by Bradbury, Mary (1964-)

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London : Routledge, 1999. 1st edition. Softcover. Fine paperback copy. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright and clean. Physical description; 227 pp., illustrations. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Introduction: an analysis of contemporary deathways; 1 The study of death: a social psychological approach; 2 Researching death: an urban ethnography; 3 Medicine and bureaucracy; 4 Commerce and ritual; 5 The body; 6 Social representations of death; 7 Social representations of loss; 8 Re-presenting death; Appendix; Bibliography; Index. Subjects; Undertakers and undertaking. Funeral rites and ceremonies. Bereavement. Anthropology. Social sciences. Death Psychological aspects. Culture. Emotions. Medical care. Ethnology. Diseases.
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Drawing upon a rare and highly original ethnography of mortuary practices in the 1990s, this is an intriguing book which takes the reader through the medical, bureaucratic, commercial and ritual aspects of death today.

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Driving though London recently on a busy working day I came across a funeral cortege sedately making its way to the local crematorium: shiny black hearse, flowers, bearers and the coffin.

About the author

Mary Bradbury is a researcher and freelance lecturer. She is currently training at the Institute of Psycho-analysis, London.