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Part II - THE PASTORAL AGE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2009

Allan Kellehear
Allan Kellehear
Affiliation:
La Trobe University, Victoria
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The Pastoral Age is the story of the rise of early farmers and peasants and their intimate ties with grain and stock, a relationship that unleashed a gradual dying because of one single paradox – rising survival and life-expectancy amid epidemics. Dying is partly reversed out of its long-imagined otherworld journey.

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A Social History of Dying , pp. 67 - 68
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2007

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  • THE PASTORAL AGE
  • Allan Kellehear, La Trobe University, Victoria
  • Book: A Social History of Dying
  • Online publication: 22 September 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511481352.006
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  • THE PASTORAL AGE
  • Allan Kellehear, La Trobe University, Victoria
  • Book: A Social History of Dying
  • Online publication: 22 September 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511481352.006
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  • THE PASTORAL AGE
  • Allan Kellehear, La Trobe University, Victoria
  • Book: A Social History of Dying
  • Online publication: 22 September 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511481352.006
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