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Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-31 - Publisher: Oxbow Books
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Pages: 262
Pages: 262
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-01-31 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
What to do with the dead? In Imperial Japan, as elsewhere in the modernizing world, answering this perennial question meant relying on age-old solutions. Funera
Language: en
Pages: 272
Pages: 272
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-01-01 - Publisher: A&C Black
Describing a variety of funeral ritual, from major world religions and from local traditions, this book shows how cultures cope not only with corpses but also c
Language: en
Pages: 226
Pages: 226
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-05 - Publisher: Routledge
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