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Partial Death as a Defining Characteristic of a Subculture
Author(s) -
Malamuth Philip
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
suicide and life‐threatening behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.544
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1943-278X
pISSN - 0363-0234
DOI - 10.1111/j.1943-278x.1979.tb00563.x
Subject(s) - subculture (biology) , emphasis (telecommunications) , sociology , genealogy , history , engineering , biology , telecommunications , botany
This paper presents a discussion of the idea of “partial death” as it relates to the subculture of the beats or hypsters, especially in San Francisco, from about 1948 to 1964, with special emphasis on the works of Kerouac and Ginsberg and a study by Rigney and Smith.