Reviews for Environmental change and human development

The average rating for Environmental change and human development based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-01-01 00:00:00 Lisa Sica I strongly believe everyone needs to read this book. It's brutal, but so is the history of America. This book serves as a deep nod to the latter, as well as a depiction of what draws people to embrace death early in life. It reads like a cross between a history and a personalized anthropology textbook, along with a deep dive into the social underpinnings of the funeral and religious communities built out of years of violence and forced acceptance of death. It makes you look at the events, attitudes, cultures, and beliefs of today in a different light. It makes you ruminate, despair, and start to understand the struggles painted down across our history and why it still matters so much. It also is a useful book to pair with Jessica Mitford's The American Way of Death to get a more nuanced picture of the American funeral system.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-04-16 00:00:00 Sherry Carson Passed On opens a window onto African Americans' formal handling of death. Stitched into the book, that draws heavily on interviews, newspaper reports, etc., is Holloway's own beautiful but sad narrative of her family's efforts to mourn the loss of her son.