Rites of Passage (Peoples and Customs of the World) by Jacqueline Dineen, illustrated by Robert Ingpen. Dragon's World, 1995.
A book for people studying death across the cultures, this book has sections on: Birth; Initiation; Marriage; Death. In Death subjects discussed include: protection after death; burial in ancient Peru; the afterlife and different cultural views on it; grieving; mourning clothes; Buddhist and Hindu funerals; and remembering the death.
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