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Death's Summer Coat: What the History of Death and Dying Teaches Us About Life a
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- Condition
- Artist
- Schillace, Brandy
- ISBN
- 1681773244
- Book Title
- Death's Summer Coat
- Publisher
- Pegasus Books
- Item Length
- 8.8 in
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Genre
- Social Science
- Topic
- Death & Dying, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Anthropology / General
- Item Weight
- 9.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.6 in
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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Death is something we all confront--it touches our families, our homes, our hearts. And yet we have grown used to denying its existence, treating it as an enemy to be beaten back with medical advances.We are living at a unique point in human history. People are living longer than ever, yet the longer we live, the more taboo and alien our mortality becomes. Yet we, and our loved ones, still remain mortal. People today still struggle with this fact, as we have done throughout our entire history. What led us to this point? What drove us to sanitize death and make it foreign and unfamiliar?Schillace shows how talking about death, and the rituals associated with it, can help provide answers. It also brings us closer together--conversation and community are just as important for living as for dying. Some of the stories are strikingly unfamiliar; others are far more familiar than you might suppose. But all reveal much about the present--and about ourselves.
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Publisher
Pegasus Books
ISBN-10
1681773244
ISBN-13
9781681773247
eBay Product ID (ePID)
234982445
Product Key Features
Book Title
Death's Summer Coat
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Topic
Death & Dying, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Anthropology / General
Genre
Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
9.9 Oz
Item Length
8.8 in
Item Width
5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition
23
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Schillace's explorations are extensive and interdisciplinary, drawing on research in the sciences but also valuing the many expressions of death in the arts. With her personable voice, she is able to breathe compassion into what might otherwise be a depressing topic. Endlessly fascinating. This vibrant window to other lives also creates a deeper understanding of one's own, Schillace examines rituals of bereavement across cultures and across time. She points toward the confusion that has emerged in a technological age when brain death, heart death, and other definitions becloud our understanding of expiry itself., At once scholarly but also infused with personal narrative, Death's Summer Coat has something to offer everyone., The book opens by surveying a wide swath of mourning customs from around the world, practices that Schillace holds up, usually to their advantage, against the customary funeral-home funeral of the modern West. As death became medical, it became something to be fought or fixed, and in these parallel shifts--from the religious to the medical, and from the communal to the private--Schillace perceives the forces behind our misaligned contemporary attitudes about mortality., In this thoughtful, wide-ranging examination, Schillace looks at how cultures worldwide have dealt with death, both in the past and present., Schillace examines rituals of bereavement across cultures and across time. She points toward the confusion that has emerged in a technological age when brain death, heart death and other definitions becloud our understanding of expiry itself. We don''t know what death means or even what it is., Schillace raises a lot of questions surrounding the issue of mortality, leaving readers to form their own answers., Vivid, scholarly, enthralling, and surprisingly touching, Death's Summer Coat is skillfully stitched together., A lively, panoramic view of our approach to death and dying that asks essential questions, and offers important insights, into the inevitable., Schillace writers glowingly of a growing movement to counter the death-denying attitude of Western society. Wide-ranging and surprisingly easy reading., In this thoughtful, wide-ranging examination, Schillace looks at how cultures worldwide have dealt with death, both in the past and present. Rituals that reflect a communal understanding of the pain felt by survivors can help ease the sting of loss, she points out, while modern western society looks at grief as an abnormal state, or assign it a timetable. The book offers no single answer or prescription, but it proposes we at least start the conversation., Schillace examines rituals of bereavement across cultures and across time. She points toward the confusion that has emerged in a technological age when brain death, heart death and other definitions becloud our understanding of expiry itself. We don't know what death means or even what it is., An informed but not overly academic pop culture look at death and dying in cultures around the world., Schillace writers glowingly of a growing movement to counter thedeath-denying attitude of Western society. Wide-ranging and surprisinglyeasy reading.
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306.9
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