Scheper-hughes, Nancy; Kaufert, Joseph M.; O'neil, John D.; Hayes, Christopher L.; Kalish, Richard A.; Barrett, Ronald K.
Format:
Book section
Publisher:
Mayfield Publishing Co, Mountain View, CA, 1995.
Language:
English
Abstract:
[book section covering several chapters] "Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil" / Nancy Scheper-Hughes / how can mothers seemingly shrug off the deaths of their children and go on as if an extraordinarily devastating event has not taken place / it is useful to go beyond the cultural veils of our experience and make the effort to understand the character of life in other social settings "Cultural Mediation of Dying and Grieving Among Native Canadian Patients in Urban Hospitals" / Joseph M. Kaufert and John D. O'Neil / illustrates how conflict between competing sets of cultural values and practices can heighten feelings of being left out and ignored "Death-Related Experiences and Funerary Practices of the Hmong Refugee in the United States" / Christopher L. Hayes and Richard A. Kalish / consider the plight of the Hmong seeking to carry out their traditional death and bereavement practices in a new cultural setting and notice how . . . reaction to such practices leads to judgments about what is appropriate "Contemporary African-American Funeral Rites and Traditions" / Ronald K. Barrett / describes how various ecological and subcultural factors—primarily religion, ethnicity, and social class—interact to influence how people in one group confront death and dying (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: book)