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Death Rites

Death Rites is a formalized cultural practice belonging to the broader category of ritual phenomena, specifically distinguished by its institutionalized procedures and symbolic actions enacted in response to the occurrence of death, serving to mediate social, spiritual, and psychological transitions associated with the deceased and the bereaved.

373

Publications

15.7K

Citations

498

Authors

238

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

46

Variants

Mortuary Rites

Parents

Publications

373

Symbolic exchange and death

Choice Reviews Online · 1994 · 1.2K citations

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FUNCTIONS OF PARTING CEREMONIES IN DYING ORGANIZATIONS.

Subrena Harris, Robert I. Sutton · Academy of Management Journal · 1986 · 355 citations

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The Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dying

Phyllis Myers, Lynne Ann DeSpelder, Amanda Strickland · Teaching Sociology · 1988 · 268 citations

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Celebrations of Death: The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual.

S. C. Humphreys, Richard Huntington, Peter Metcalf · Man · 1980 · 228 citations

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Medieval death: ritual and representation

Choice Reviews Online · 1997 · 224 citations

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Authors

498

  1. TW
    Tony Walter

    University of Bath, United Kingdom

    7 publications · 403 citations

    7

    h-index

  2. PM
    Peter Metcalf

    University of Auckland, New Zealand

    5 publications · 449 citations

    5

    h-index

  3. DE
    David E. Stannard

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    4 publications · 213 citations

    4

    h-index

  4. JM
    JoAnne M. Youngblut

    Florida International University, United States

    3 publications · 158 citations

    3

    h-index

  5. JR
    James R. Banker

    3 publications · 96 citations

    3

    h-index

1–5 of 498

Institutions

238

  1. University of South Africa

    Pretoria, South Africa

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    132 citations

  2. University of Bath

    Bath, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    227 citations

  3. University of Reading

    Reading, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    216 citations

  4. Florida International University

    Miami, United States

    3 h-index

    13 publications

    483 citations

  5. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    114 citations

  6. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    136 citations

  7. Radboud University Nijmegen

    Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    91 citations

  8. University of California, San Francisco

    San Francisco, United States

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    74 citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 32 publications · 3.2K citations

    24

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  2. Mortality

    25 publications · 810 citations

    17

    h-index

  3. OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying

    25 publications · 719 citations

    17

    h-index

  4. The American Historical Review

    AHR · 10 publications · 477 citations

    10

    h-index

  5. Man

    10 publications · 771 citations

    10

    h-index

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