By Elizabeth Hallam
Beyond the Body offers a brand new and complex method of dying, demise and bereavement, and the sociology of the physique. The authors problem latest theories that placed the physique on the centre of id. They pass 'beyond the physique' to focus on the endurance of self-identity even if the physique itself has been disposed of or is missing.
Chapters draw jointly quite a lot of empirical info, together with cross-cultural case reviews and fieldwork to ascertain either the administration of the corpse and the development of the 'soul' or 'spirit' by way of concentrating on the paintings of:
*undertakers
*embalmers
*coroners
*clergy
*clairvoyants
*exorcists
*bereavement counsellors.
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