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Takes a multidisciplinary approach in an effort to provide a fuller understanding of both historic and contemporary practices linked with death in Korea. Contributors incorporate the approaches of archaeology, history, literature, religion, and anthropology in addressing a number of topics organised around issues of the body, disposal of remains, ancestor worship and rites, and the afterlife.

Death Mourning and the Afterlife in Korea

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    A Paperback by Charlotte Horlyck, Michael J. Pettid, Min Sun Kim

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      Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/30/2018 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780824876760, 978-0824876760
      ISBN10: 0824876768

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      Book Synopsis
      Takes a multidisciplinary approach in an effort to provide a fuller understanding of both historic and contemporary practices linked with death in Korea. Contributors incorporate the approaches of archaeology, history, literature, religion, and anthropology in addressing a number of topics organised around issues of the body, disposal of remains, ancestor worship and rites, and the afterlife.

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