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4.0 out of 5 stars Good Book for a new Anthropologist, October 21, 2007
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This is a good book which deals with funerary rites and traditions. It looks at how death is celebrated in various countries and through different cultures. I gave it four stars instead of five as I had hoped it would have dealt more with persons from an African and Aborigine environments.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Groundbreaking ethnographies, December 3, 2006
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This is by far the most enjoyable and fascinating comparative case-studies I've read concerning treatment of the dead in Southeast Asia. I suggest this book to anyone wishing to crossculturally examine views of the deceased and the rituals associated with death. Superb, absolutely brilliant.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Celebration of death, March 7, 2009
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I am so impressed with the information in this book, it has been an asset for my research.
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Celebrations of Death:The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual
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