Suicide as a dramatic performance /

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Other Authors: Lester, David, 1942- (Editor), Stack, Steven, (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick : Transaction Publishers, [2015]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Ritual, dramatic performance, and suicide : an anthropological perspective / Joseph Rubenstein
  • The suicide note
  • The presentation of the self in suicide notes / David Lester & Bijou Yang
  • Dramatic suicide notes / David Lester
  • The body as a suicide note / David Lester
  • Suicide and the communicative condition : audience and the idea of suicide / Jerome Martinez
  • The location of the suicidal act
  • The location of the suicidal act / Steven Stack
  • Suicide away from home / Steven Stack
  • Hotel suicide and the drug subculture / Steven Stack
  • Back to nature: suicide in natural areas / Steven Stack
  • Suicide in the grand canyon national park / Steven Stack & Barbara Bowman
  • Suicide in public / David Lester
  • Suicide on television and online / David Lester
  • The method chosen for suicide
  • The method chosen for suicide / David Lester
  • The rehearsal : non-fatal suicidal behavior as a precipitant of suicide / John F. Gunn III
  • Suicide by fire : ethnicity as a predictor of self-immolation in the united states / Steven Stack & Seth B. Abrutyn
  • Have gun, will travel / teven Stack
  • Unusual suicides / Steven Stack
  • Methods of suicide around the world / Steven Stack
  • Cultural scripts for suicide
  • Russian roulette and duels / David Lester
  • Death by seppuku / David Lester
  • Self-immolation as a protest / David Lester
  • Victim-precipitated homicide / David Lester
  • Sati / David Lester
  • Suicide as the liberation of the soul / David Lester
  • Conclusions
  • Conclusion / David Lester and Steven Stack.