Grief in Cross Cultural Perspective: A Casebook (Garland Reference Library of Social Science)

By Larry A. Platt

Twelve studies from diverse cultural settings are grouped according to four general categories of factors that shape the grief responses of the bereaved in highly industrialized western societies: the social meaning of death, the relationship between the deceased and the survivor, the mode of death,

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824045653
• ISBN13: 9780824045654
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 446 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.3" x 6.0"