You can die but once? Creativity, narrative and epistemology in Western death

Mortality

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 261-283

  Buck, Trudi ^a   Pipyrou, Stavroula ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bio social; death; epistemology; forensics; narrative; sorcery

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904261154     PISSN: 13576275     EISSN: 14699885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13576275.2014.929567     Document Type: Article

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