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Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Egypt --- Antiquities.

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Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient --- Dead --- Death --- Civilization, Ancient --- Funérailles --- Mort --- Civilisation ancienne --- Congresses --- Rites et cérémonies --- Histoire --- Congrès --- -Dead --- -Death --- -Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient --- -Ancient funeral rites and ceremonies --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Cadavers --- Corpses --- Deceased --- Human remains --- Remains, Human --- Burial --- Corpse removals --- Cremation --- Death notices --- Embalming --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Obituaries --- Ancient civilization --- Philosophy --- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient. --- Ancient world --- Social aspects. --- Attitudes of society --- -Congresses --- Attitudes of society. --- Funérailles --- Rites et cérémonies --- Congrès --- Ancient funeral rites and ceremonies --- Congresses. --- Cryomation --- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient - Congresses --- Dead - Congresses --- Death - Congresses --- Civilization, Ancient - Congresses

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Ethnology --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Migration, Internal --- Nigeria --- Social life and customs. --- Internal migration --- Mobility --- Population geography --- Internal migrants --- Funerals --- Mortuary ceremonies --- Obsequies --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Burial --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Dead --- Mourning customs

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It is a classical anthropological paradox that symbols of rebirth and fertility are frequently found in funerary rituals throughout the world. The original essays collected here re-examine this phenomenon through insights from China, India, New Guinea, Latin America, and Africa. The contributors, each a specialist in one of these areas, have worked in close collaboration to produce a genuinely innovative theoretical approach to the study of the symbolism surrounding death, an outline of which is provided in an important introduction by the editors. The major concern of the volume is the way in which funerary rituals dramatically transform the image of life as a dialectic flux involving exchange and transaction, marriage and procreation, into an image of a still, transcendental order in which oppositions such as those between self and other, wife-giver and wife-taker, Brahmin and untouchable, birth and therefore death have been abolished. This transformation often involves a general devaluation of biology, and, particularly, of sexuality, which is contrasted with a more spiritual and controlled source of life. The role of women, who are frequently associated with biological processes, mourning and death pollution, is often predominant in funerary rituals, and in examining this book makes a further contribution to the understanding of the symbolism of gender. The death rituals and the symbolism of rebirth are also analysed in the context of the political processes of the different societies considered, and it is argued that social order and political organisation may be legitimated through an exploitation of the emotions and biology.

Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Death --- Religion --- Fertility cults --- Funérailles --- Mort --- Fécondité --- Rites et cérémonies. --- Cultes --- Funeral rites and ceremonies. --- Death. --- Religion. --- Fertility cults. --- 291.23 --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Funerals --- Mortuary ceremonies --- Obsequies --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Burial --- Cremation --- Dead --- Mourning customs --- Cults, Fertility --- Cults --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- 291.23 Godsdienstwetenschap: eschatologische doctrines; leven na de dood --- 291.23 Godsdienstwetenschap: opstanding; reïncarnatie; metamorfose; zielsverhuizing; paradijs; hel; vagevuur --- Godsdienstwetenschap: eschatologische doctrines; leven na de dood --- Godsdienstwetenschap: opstanding; reïncarnatie; metamorfose; zielsverhuizing; paradijs; hel; vagevuur --- Philosophy --- Philosophical anthropology --- Physiology: reproduction & development. Ages of life --- Cryomation --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology

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Bargen (Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Germany) --- -Berghausen (Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) --- -Antiquities --- Antiquities --- Franks --- Burial --- Antiquities. --- Burial. --- Franks. --- Grafvelden. --- Grafgiften. --- Vroege middeleeuwen. --- Francs --- Funérailles --- Reihengrab. --- Gräberfeld. --- Ausgrabung. --- Berghausen (Baden-Württemberg, Germany) --- Germany --- Bargen (Rhein-Neckar-Kreis) --- Berghausen (Baden-Württemberg) --- Berghausen (Pfinztal) --- Franken (Volk) --- Berghausen (A�lar) --- Bargen (Rhein-Neckar-Kreis). --- Berghausen (Baden-Württemberg). --- Berghausen (Pfinztal). --- Franken (Volk). --- Berghausen (A�lar). --- -Berghausen, Ger. (Baden-Württemberg) --- Ethnology --- Germanic peoples --- Burial customs --- Burying-grounds --- Graves --- Interment --- Archaeology --- Public health --- Coffins --- Dead --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Grave digging --- Berghausen (Baden-Württemberg, Germany) --- Berghausen, Ger. (Baden-Württemberg)