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Death and dying — views from many cultures
Author(s)	Richard A Kalish
Publisher	Baywood, Amityville, NY, 1980
Pages	157 pp (Perspectives on death and dying series, 1)
Source	Baywood Publishing Co., Inc. 26 Austin Avenue, Amityville, NY 11701, USA.
Keywords	Death ; Dying ; Bereavement ; Ethnic groups ; War ; Disasters [natural] ; Cross cultural surveys ; Histories.
Annotation	This volume views death and dying across time and across cultures, and brings together studies of communities in primitive civilisations (Finland, New Guinea, the Limbu of Nepal, the Sebai of East Africa, and Kaliai of New Britain, Melanesia) with the contemporary scene in North America. The consequences of war and disaster are also considered. Comprises reprints of articles which were first published in 1972, 1974, 1975, 1976 and 1977 issues of Omega - Journal of Death and Dying.
Accession Number	CPA-961024216 B
Classmark	CW: CX: DW: TK: VMC: RG: 3KA: 6A
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