Vigor Mortis by Kate Berridge
Examines the history of the rituals of death, and the different ways the dead are treated around the world.
Vigor Mortis
Vigor Mortis
Summary
Vigor Mortis lobs a grenade at the idea that death is taboo. It reveals the new approach to death with a lively and provocative analysis of how and why death is reverting from the private to public domain. This is a social change as significant as the sexual revolution of the 1960s.
Vigor Mortis Summary
About Kate Berridge
Kate Berridge is a brilliant young journalist who has written for all the national broadsheets, Vogue, Harpers & Queen and many other glossy magazines. This is her first book. She has made her own funeral video and keeps a skeleton by her desk instead of wearing a watch...
Additional information
GOR013649266
9781861971777
186197177X
Vigor Mortis by Kate Berridge
Used - Like New
Hardback
Profile Books Ltd
2001-08-31
288
N/A
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