No place, new places: Death and its rituals in urban Asia

Urban Studies

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 415-433

  Kong, Lily ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEMETERY; CULTURAL CHANGE; CULTURAL TRADITION; LAND USE CHANGE; MORTALITY; URBAN AREA; URBAN PLANNING;

ARTICLE; ASIA; CITY; DEATH; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; HISTORY; HOUSING; LEGAL ASPECT; POPULATION DENSITY; POSTHUMOUS CARE; URBAN POPULATION;

ASIA; CEMETERIES; CITIES; CREMATION; DEATH; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HOUSING; MORTUARY PRACTICE; POPULATION DENSITY; URBAN POPULATION;

ASIA;

EID: 84855873545     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098011402231     Document Type: Article

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