A companion to the anthropology of death / edited by Antonius C.G.M. Robben.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Robben, Antonius C. G. M., editor.

Series:

Blackwell companions to anthropology ; 32.

Blackwell companions to anthropology ; 32

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death--Social aspects.

Funeral rites and ceremonies--Cross-cultural studies.

Funeral rites and ceremonies.

Death--Social aspects--Cross-cultural studies.

Death.

Funeral Rites.

Anthropology.

Cross-Cultural Comparison.

Medical Subjects:

Funeral Rites.

Death.

Anthropology.

Cross-Cultural Comparison.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xl, 501 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2018.

Contents:

Governing the dead in Guatemala : public authority and dead bodies / Finn Stepputat

Evolving mortuary rituals in contemporary Japan / Yohko Tsuji

Revealing brands, concealing labor / George Sanders

Playing with corpses : assembling bodies for the dead in southwest China / Erik Mueggler

Death and separation in post-conflict Timor-Leste / Judith Bovensiepen

Migration, death, and conspicuous redistribution in southeastern Nigeria / Daniel Jordan Smith

After death : event, marrative, feeling / Michael Lambek

Reflections on the work of recovery I and II / Beth A. Conklin

The pursuit of sorrow and the ethics of crying / Oliver Allard

Mourning as mutuality Jason Danely

A comparative study of Jewish-Israeli and Buddhist-Khmer trauma descendant discontinued bonds with the genocide dead / Carol A. Kidron

Facing death : on mourning, empathy and finitude / Devin Flaherty and C. Jason Throop

What is a mass grave? : toward an anthropology of human remains treatment in contemporary contests of mass violence / Isabeth Anstett

Death on the move : pantheons and reburials in Spanish Civil War exhumations / Francisco Ferrandiz

Accountability for mass death, acts of rescue and silence in Rwanda / Jennie E. Burnet

Impassable visions : the Cambodia to come, the detritus in its wake / Hudson McFann and Alexander Laban Hinton

Experience, empathy, and flexibility : on participant observation in deadly fields / Ivana Macek

Learning how to die / Robert Desjarlais

Whirlpools, glitter and ferocious intruders : the palpability of death in Chachi animism / Istvan Praet

Shamanic rebirth and the paradox of disremembering the dead among Mapuche in Chile / Ana Mariella Bacigalupo

After death communications : signs from the other world in contemporary North America / Ellen Badone

Cryonic suspension as eschatological technology in the secular age / Abou Farman

From here and to death : the archaeology of the human body / Liv Nilsson Stutz

Death, corporeality and uncertainty in Zimbabwe / Joost Fontein

Death, power, and silence : Native Nations' ancestral remains at the Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania / Jacqueline Fear-Segal

In the absence of a corpse : rituals for body donors in the Netherlands / Sophie Bolt

Death as spectacle : plastinated bodies in Germany / Uli Linke

The body as medicine : blood and organ donation in China / Charlotte Ikels

Ethical dilemmas in the field : witchcraft and biomedical etiology in South Africa / Isak Niehaus

The disappearance of dying and why it matters / Helen Stanton Chapple

Death, detachment and moral dilemmas of care in a Kenyan hospital / Ruth J. Prince

The new normal : mediated death and assisted dying in the United States / Frances Norwood.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Companion to the anthropology of death.

ISBN:

9781119222293

111922229X

OCLC:

1012342592

Publisher Number:

99977342380