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Author Håland, Evy Johanne.

Title Rituals of death and dying in modern and ancient Greece : writing history from a female perspective.

Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Multidisciplinary or post-disciplinary research is what is needed when dealing with such complex subjects as ritual behaviour. This research, therefore, combines ethnography with historical sources to examine the relationship between modern Greek death rituals and ancient written and visual sources on the subject of death and gender. The central theme of this work is women's role in connection with the cult of the dead in ancient and modern Greece. The research is based on studies in ancient history combined with the author's fieldwork and anthropological analysis of today's Mediterranean soci.
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Subject Women and death -- Greece -- History.
Women and death.
Greece.
History.
Death -- Social aspects -- Greece.
Death -- Social aspects.
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Social aspects -- Greece.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Social aspects.
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient -- Social aspects -- Greece.
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient.
Greeks -- Funeral customs and rites.
Greeks.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Håland, Evy Johanne. Rituals of death and dying in modern and ancient Greece. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014 9781443861274
ISBN 9781443868594 (electronic book)
1443868590 (electronic book)
9781443868594
1443868590

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