TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berger,Peter
AU  - Bremmer,Jan N.
AU  - Hardenberg,Roland
AU  - Kroesen,Justin
AU  - Kroesen,Justin E.A.
AU  - Kuiper,Yme B.
AU  - Luth,Jan R.
AU  - Maaker,Erik de
AU  - Mirnig,Nina
AU  - Nanninga,Pieter
AU  - Robben,Antonius C.G.M.
AU  - Vitebsky,Piers
TI  - Ultimate Ambiguities: Investigating Death and Liminality 
SN  - 9781782386094
AV  - BD444 .U478 2016eb
U1  - 306.9 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Death
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Funeral rites and ceremonies
KW  - Liminality
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - ancestors
KW  - anthropology
KW  - case studies
KW  - cemeteries
KW  - change
KW  - coming of age
KW  - creativity
KW  - death and dying
KW  - death
KW  - destiny
KW  - diplomacy
KW  - evolution
KW  - experiments
KW  - explore death
KW  - funeral
KW  - good and evil
KW  - hardship
KW  - humanity
KW  - interdisciplinary perspective
KW  - life and death
KW  - life changes
KW  - life lessons
KW  - liminality
KW  - political implications
KW  - psychology
KW  - realistic
KW  - religious life
KW  - revolutionaries
KW  - social relationships
KW  - social sciences
KW  - social
KW  - theoretical
KW  - tragedy
KW  - transition
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Preface --; Introduction --; Part I Rituals --; Chapter One. Ambiguous Mortal Remains, Substitute Bodies, and other Materializations of the Dead among the Garo of Northeast India --; Chapter Two. Structures and Processes of Liminality: The Shape of Mourning among the Sora of Tribal India --; Chapter Three. Liminal Bodies, Liminal Food Hindu and Tribal Death Rituals Compared --; Chapter Four. The Liminality of “Living Martyrdom” Suicide Bombers’ Preparations for Paradise --; Part II Concepts --; Chapter Five. Disappearance and Liminality: Argentina’s Mourning of State Terror --; Chapter Six. Three Dimensions of Liminality in the Context of Kyrgyz Death Rituals --; Chapter Seven. Death, Ritual, and Effervescence --; Part III Imageries --; Chapter Eight. Hungry Ghost or Divine Soul? Postmortem Initiation in Medieval Shaiva Tantric Death Rites --; Chapter Nine. Between Death and Judgment: Sleep as the Image of Death in Early Modern Protestantism --; Chapter Ten. Body and Soul between Death and Funeral in Archaic Greece --; Chapter Eleven. Death, Memory, and Liminality: Rethinking Lampedusa’s Later Life as Author and Aristocrat --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Periods of transition are often symbolically associated with death, making the latter the paradigm of liminality. Yet, many volumes on death in the social sciences and humanities do not specifically address liminality. This book investigates these “ultimate ambiguities,” assuming they can pose a threat to social relationships because of the disintegrating forces of death, but they are also crucial periods of creativity, change, and emergent aspects of social and religious life. Contributors explore death and liminality from an interdisciplinary perspective and present a global range of historical and contemporary case studies outlining emotional, cognitive, artistic, social, and political implications
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782386100
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782386100
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781782386100/original
ER  -