Coping with the Final Tragedy: Cultural Variation in Dying and GrievingDavid R. Counts, Dorothy Ayers Counts This book as a whole emphasizes common concerns shared by all humanity while the volume chapters emphasize various cultural diversities, and the remarkable varieties in the ways that people understood and experience death and grief. The articles in this new text demonstrate these differences and provide insight into human resourcefulness and ingenuity as people cope with death, the final tragedy. |
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Death and the Expression | 191 |
Memories of MarieThérèse | 213 |
Cultural Mediation of Dying and Grieving among | 231 |
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