Add to ORKGIn this chapter, I provide an account of contemporary mortuary practices among the Martu of the Western Desert of Western Australia, and evaluate the impact of these practices on Martu society. I argue that funerals, despite taking an enormous toll on the affected individuals, families and communities, serve to affirm cultural identity an
This paper explores the nature of grief in Lihir, Papua New Guinea, in light of psychological theori...
This paper describes the burial ceremony of the Surma-speaking Me'en of southwest Ethiopia as a co...
Death and funerary rituals have a special significance in Bakhtiari culture. The death of a tribe or...
Death is universal and all societies have developed some kind of death ritual which serves as a form...
Death poses problems to the individual and the society. In time, each of us experiences the death of...
This chapter asks how cultural rules for treatment of the body and spirit of the deceased and for me...
In this chapter the authors take an auto-ethnographic approach to draw from recent experiences of b...
"June 2000"Thesis (MA (Hons))--Macquarie University, Division of Society, Culture, Media and Philoso...
Considering the frequent rights violations perpetrated against indigenous peoples, which affect peop...
This paper discusses emotions as intersubjective states that develop in the interactions between ind...
The rich data drawn from a study to develop an innovative model for Indigenous palliative care are p...
The rich data drawn from a study to develop an innovative model for Indigenous palliative care are p...
This article examines the death rites in the Baduy indigenous people, one of the indigenous peoples ...
Past and present ceremonies for the dead are the focus in this study of social change and cultural p...
Focusing on tradition, technology, and authority, this volume challenges classical understandings th...
This paper explores the nature of grief in Lihir, Papua New Guinea, in light of psychological theori...
This paper describes the burial ceremony of the Surma-speaking Me'en of southwest Ethiopia as a co...
Death and funerary rituals have a special significance in Bakhtiari culture. The death of a tribe or...
Death is universal and all societies have developed some kind of death ritual which serves as a form...
Death poses problems to the individual and the society. In time, each of us experiences the death of...
This chapter asks how cultural rules for treatment of the body and spirit of the deceased and for me...
In this chapter the authors take an auto-ethnographic approach to draw from recent experiences of b...
"June 2000"Thesis (MA (Hons))--Macquarie University, Division of Society, Culture, Media and Philoso...
Considering the frequent rights violations perpetrated against indigenous peoples, which affect peop...
This paper discusses emotions as intersubjective states that develop in the interactions between ind...
The rich data drawn from a study to develop an innovative model for Indigenous palliative care are p...
The rich data drawn from a study to develop an innovative model for Indigenous palliative care are p...
This article examines the death rites in the Baduy indigenous people, one of the indigenous peoples ...
Past and present ceremonies for the dead are the focus in this study of social change and cultural p...
Focusing on tradition, technology, and authority, this volume challenges classical understandings th...
This paper explores the nature of grief in Lihir, Papua New Guinea, in light of psychological theori...
This paper describes the burial ceremony of the Surma-speaking Me'en of southwest Ethiopia as a co...
Death and funerary rituals have a special significance in Bakhtiari culture. The death of a tribe or...