Death, Mourning, and Burial: A Cross-Cultural Reader
by Editor: Antonius C. G. M. Robben (Utrecht University)Format: eBook
Pub. Date: 2009-02-01
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
In Death, Mourning, and Burial, an indispensable introduction to the anthropology of death, readers will find a rich selection of some of the finest ethnographic work on this fascinating topic. Comprised of six sections that mirror the social trajectory of death: conceptualizations of death; death and dying; uncommon death; grief and mourning; mortuary rituals; and remembrance and regeneration Includes canonical readings as well as recent studies on topics such as organ donation and cannibalism Designed for anyone concerned with issues of death and dying, as well as: violence, terrorism, war, state terror, organ theft, and mortuary rituals Serves as a text for anthropology classes, as well as providing a genuinely cross-cultural perspective to all those studying death and dying
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | |
| Death and Anthropology: An Introduction | |
| Conceptualizations of Death. | |
| Magic, Science and Religion | |
| The Terror of Death | |
| Symbolic Immortality | |
| The Hour of Our Death | |
| How Others Die: Reflections on the Anthropology of Death | |
| Death and Dying. | |
| Death Omens in a Breton Memorate | |
| The Meaning of Death in Northern Cheyenne Culture | |
| Kinds of Death and the House | |
| Displacing Suffering: The Reconstruction of Death in North America and Japan | |
| Uncommon Death. | |
| Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande | |
| Burial Alive | |
| State Terror in the Netherworld: Disappearance and Reburial in Argentina | |
| Grief and Mourning. | |
| The Andaman Islanders | |
| Metaphors of Mediation in Greek Funeral Laments | |
| Grief and a HeadhunterÆs Rage | |
| Death Without Weeping | |
| Mortuary Rituals. | |
| A Contribution to the Study of the Collective Representation of Death | |
| The Rites of Passage | |
| The Phase of Negated Death | |
| ÆThus are our bodies, thus was our customÆ: Mortuary Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society | |
| Remembrance and Regeneration. | |
| Sacrificial Death and the Necrophagous Ascetic | |
| The 19th-Century Tlingit Potlatch: A New Perspective | |
| Dead Bodies Animate the Study of Politics | |
| Index | |
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