Articulate necrographies : comparative perspectives on the voices and silences of the dead / edited by Anastasios Panagiotopoulos and Diana Espirito Santo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios (Anthropologist), editor.

Espirito Santo, Diana, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Death.

Dead--Social aspects--Cross-cultural studies.

Dead.

Funeral rites and ceremonies--Cross-cultural studies.

Funeral rites and ceremonies.

Dead--Social aspects.

Death--Social aspects.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

viii, 263 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Comparative perspectives on the voices and silences of the dead

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2019.

Contents:

Anastasios Panagiotopoulos and Diana Espirito Santo

Necrographic frameworks

Voices and silences of the dead in western modernity / Tony Walter

Coping with massive urban death : the mutual constitution of mourning and

Recovery in World War Two's bombing war / Antonius C.G.M. Robben

Biographies and necrographies in exchange : from the self to the other / Anastasios Panagiotopoulos

Necrographic observations

The making of spirit bodies and death perspectives in Afro-Cuban religion / Diana Espirito Santo

Sensory necrography : the flow of signs and sensations in the corpse / Beth Conklin

Unanchored deaths : grieving the unplaceable in Samburu / Bilinda Straight

The sociality of death : life potentialities and the Vietnamese dead / Marina Marouda

Enlightened spirits : a historical-anthropological perspective on spiritism, science, modernity and the vitality of spirits under neoliberalism / Raquel Romberg

Channeling the flow : dealing with death in an African-based religion / Gabriel Banaggia

Of shadows and fears : Nepalese ghost stories from classical texts and folklore to the social media / Davide Torri

Death isn't what it used to be : animist and Baptist ontologies in tribal India / Piers Vitebsky.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Articulate necrographies.

ISBN:

9781789203042

178920304X

OCLC:

1108708693