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1 online resource (xxiii, 276 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
This volume explores the different aspects of the management of death, dying and mortality by migrants in Southern Europe, through deconstructing persistent idiosyncratic beliefs, myths, narratives, silences, and constraints. It focuses on migrants from diverse geographical and cultural backgrounds in Portugal, Spain and Italy. It also includes reflections on Madagascar, Guinea-Bissau, East-Timor and Cuba. The thirteen chapters provide insights into epistemological issues, the trans-national circulation of bodies, spirits and rituals, migration, the placing of the dead and diverse funerary pra. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Europe, Southern -- Emigration and immigration.
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Southern Europe. |
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Emigration and immigration. |
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Immigrants -- Europe, Southern -- Social conditions.
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Immigrants. |
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Social conditions. |
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Dead -- Social aspects -- Europe, Southern.
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Dead -- Social aspects. |
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Dead. |
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Burial -- Social aspects -- Europe, Southern -- History.
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Burial. |
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Social aspects. |
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History. |
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Immigrants -- Social life and customs.
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Immigrants -- Social life and customs. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Havik, Philip J.
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Mapril, José.
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Saraiva, Clara.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Death on the move. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018 1527507572 9781527507579 (OCoLC)1022496226 |
| ISBN |
9781527507579 (electronic book) |
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1527507572 (electronic book) |
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9781527510746 |
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1527510743 |
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1527507572 |
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