Rituals of death and dying in modern and ancient Greece : writing history from a female perspective
- Author
- Håland, Evy Johanne
- Published
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource : illustrations
Access Online
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; A NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; GLOSSARY OF GREEK TERMS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; 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.
- Subject(s)
- Women and death—Greece—History
- Death—Social aspects—Greece
- Funeral rites and ceremonies—Social aspects—Greece
- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient—Social aspects—Greece
- Greeks—Funeral customs and rites
- Femmes et mort—Grèce—Histoire
- Mort—Aspect social—Grèce
- Funérailles—Rites et cérémonies—Aspect social—Grèce
- Funérailles—Rites et cérémonies—Histoire—Jusqu'à 500—Aspect social—Grèce
- Grecs—Rites et cérémonies funéraires
- History
- Cultural studies
- Gender studies: women
- SOCIAL SCIENCE—Discrimination & Race Relations
- SOCIAL SCIENCE—Minority Studies
- Death—Social aspects
- Women and death
- Greece
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9781443868594 (electronic bk.)
1443868590 (electronic bk.)
1322180652
9781322180656
1443861278
9781443861274
9781443868594
1443868590 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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