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Das, Veena – 1984
One particular death and the rituals, funeral ceremony, and mourning which followed it are used to explore the relationship of the living to death. The particular death described was one which occurred during a year of fieldwork among urban Punjabis. By examining the category of mourners, it was possible to discern a structure within which grief…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Case Studies, Death, Ethnography
