Grief, mourning, and death ritual
edited by Jenny Hockey, Jeanne Katz, Neil Small
Publisher: Buckingham, England ; Open University Press, 2001.
ISBN: 0335205011
DDC: 306.9
LCC: HQ1073
Edition: (pbk.)
Summary:
This book focuses on what happens after a death has taken place.
Drawing on social theory and anthropology, contributors examine
responses to death as they occur within the unique set of cultural,
social and historical circumstances which characterizes post-war
society. The book does not just document and make sense of
contemporary practices but also critically reviews the ways grief,
mourning and death ritual have been approached by academics and
practitioners in the field. It does this by combining substantial
reviews with shorter illustrative examples of grief, mourning and
death ritual as they are manifest in specific settings and with
defined groups. These illustrative examples include personal and
institutional responses to death at different points in the life
cycle, and responses to different sorts of death - the death of
children and death in disasters for example. The examples include
commentaries on bereavement work and on changes in both the funeral
industry and memorialization practices. Grief, Mourning and Death
Ritual is aimed at advanced students in sociology, anthropology and
psychology with an interest in death, dying and mortality. It is also
directly relevant to those concerned with loss and how to respond to
it. The book is therefore suitable for use on courses in nursing,
palliative care, social work and counselling irth - 17. Grieving i.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Theories of grief: a critical review / Neil Small -- 2. Is grief
an illness? Issues of theory in relation to cultural diversity and
the grieving process / Caroline Currer -- 3. Four siblings'
perspectives on parent death: a family focus / Miriam S. Moss and
Sidney Z. Moss -- 4. "Naturalizing" death among older adults in
residential care / Carol Komaromy and Jenny Hockey -- 5. Just an old
fashioned love song or a harlequin romance? Some experiences of
widowhood / Jane Littlewood -- 6. Discourse into practice: the
production of bereavement care / Neil Small and Jenny Hockey -- 7.
The skills we need: bereavement counselling and governmentality in
England / Arnar Árnason -- 8. "You have to get inside the person" or
making grief private: image and metaphor in the therapeutic
re-construction of bereavement / Michael Anderson -- 9. Supporting
bereaved children at school / Jeanne Katz -- 10. The child death
helpline / Jean Simons -- 11. A place for my child: the evolution of
a candle service / Jo Heslop -- 12. Changing death rituals / Jenny
Hockey -- 13. Funeral ritual, past and present / Phil Gore -- 14.
Forget me not: memorialisation in cemeteries and crematoria / Mary
Bradbury -- 15. The cemetery: the evidence of continuing bonds /
Doris Francis, et al -- 16. Hindu death and mourning rituals: the
impact of geographical mobility / Shirley Firth -- 17. Grieving in
public / Glennys Howarth -- 18. Post-disaster rituals / Anne Eyre.
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