Death, mourning, and burial : a cross-cultural reader / edited by Antonius C.G.M. Robben.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

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

Series:

New York Academy of Sciences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Funeral rites and ceremonies--Cross-cultural studies.

Funeral rites and ceremonies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Blackwell, 2018.

Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley-Blackwell, 2017.

Summary:

The definitive reference on the anthropology of death and dying, expanded with new contributions covering everything from animal mourning to mortuary cannibalism Few subjects stir the imagination more than the study of how people across cultures deal with death and dying. This expanded second edition of the internationally bestselling Death, Mourning, and Burial offers cross-cultural readings that span the period from dying to afterlife, considering approaches to this transition as a social process and exploring the great variations of cultural responses to death. Exploring new content including organ transplantation, institutionalized care for the dying, HIV-AIDs, animal mourning, and biotechnology, this text retains classic readings from the first edition, and is enhanced bysixteen new articles and two new sections which provide increased breadth and depth for readers. Death, Mourning, and Burial, Second Edition is divided into eight parts reflecting the social trajectory of death: conceptualizations of death; death, dying, and care; grief and mourning; mortuary rituals; and remembrance and regeneration. Sections are introduced through foundational texts which provide the ideal introduction to this diverse field. It is essential reading for anyone concerned with issues of death and dying, as well as violence, terrorism, war, state terror, organ theft, and mortuary rituals. * A thoroughly revised edition of this classic anthology featuring twenty-three new articles, two new sections, and three reformulated sections * Updated to include current topics, including organ transplantation, institutionalized care for the dying, HIV-AIDs, animal mourning, and biotechnology * Must reading 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 and provides a genuinely cross-cultural perspective to all those studying death and dying

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Death and Anthropology: An Introduction

Conceptualizations of Death

Death, Dying, and Care

Grief and Mourning

Mortuary Rituals and Epidemics

Remembrance and Regeneration

Future of the Anthropology of Death

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Part I: Conceptualizations of Death

1 A Contribution to the Study of the Collective Representation of Death

1. The Intermediary Period

2. The Final Ceremony

3. Conclusion

2 The Rites of Passage

Funerals

3 Symbolic Immortality

4 Remembering as Cultural Process

Memory Making

Materialities and Social Practices

Memory Materials in Cultural and Historical Perspectives

Bodies in Time/Materials in Memory

Material Memories: Contemporary Concerns

5 Massive Violent Death and Contested National Mourning in Post‐Authoritarian Chile and Argentina

National Mourning after Massive Violent Death

Retribution and Remembrance in Argentina

Reparation and the Pursuit of Reconciliation in Chile

Conclusion

REFERENCES

Part II: Death, Dying, and Care

6 Magic, Science and Religion

Death and the Reintegration of the Group

7 Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande

8 Living Cadavers and the Calculation of Death

Preamble

Inventing a New Death

When Bodies Outlive Persons

Doubts among the Certainty

The Brain Death 'Problem'

Public Commentary on Brain Death

Summary

9 All Eyes on Egypt

'Right' and 'Wrong' Ideas about Eye Donation

Medicine's Cadavers

Can the Dead Feel the Knife?

A New Way Forward: The 2011-12 Cornea Donation Campaign

Conclusions

10 The Optimal Sacrifice

Problems with the study of voluntary death

The ownership and possession of souls

The soul as helper of and traitor to its possessor.

Suicide - "a woman's death"

Sacrifice as substitution

Voluntary death as sacrifice

REFERENCES CITED

11 Love's Labor Paid for: Gift and Commodity at the Threshold of Death

Reconciling Life and Death: The Spirit of Care

Gift and Commodity: A Phenomenology of Exchange

The Limits of Caring: Living the Contradictions of Intimate Exchange

Negotiating the Unnegotiable: Commodification and Regeneration

The Abundance of Loss: Problems of Terminality and Retention

Death Given and Received

Part III: Grief and Mourning

12 The Andaman Islanders

REFERENCE

13 Grief and a Headhunter's Rage

The Rage in Ilongot Grief

How I Found the Rage in Grief

Death in Anthropology

Grief, Rage, and Ilongot Headhunting

14 Death Without Weeping

Mortal Ills, Fated Deaths

Angel‐Babies: The Velório de Anjinhos

Grief Work: A Political Economy of the Emotions

Death Without Weeping

15 Three Days for Weeping

Matsigenka: "The People"

A Message from Afar

Emotion and Grief: Cross‐Cultural Perspectives

Sex, Death, and Demons

Three Days for Weeping

Defensive Mourning

Emotional Pathology

Farewells, Cheerful Pessimism, and the Matsigenka Ethos

Epilogue

Postscript

16 The Expression of Grief in Monkeys, Apes, and Other Animals

Defining grief

What isn't grief?

Grief and great ape welfare

Beyond speciesism

The future of grief research

Part IV: Mortuary Rituals and Epidemics

17 Hunting the Ancestors

"Pigs" from the Ancestors

Cannibalism and Images of the Afterlife

Ecology and Eschatology

Death and Alliance

Cannibalism and Human/Animal Reciprocity

Consuming Grief: Cannibalism and Mourning

18 State Terror in the Netherworld

Disappearance as Terror.

Reburial at Recoleta National Cemetery

Repatriation and Reburial in the Twentieth Century

Contested Exhumations and Revolutionary Protest

Reburial and Reconciliation

19 Mourning Becomes Eclectic

Disinterment and deposition of bones

The shape of mourning

Representing community

Representing family ties

Mourning, grief, and identity

Belief, practice, and meaning

Final words

20 'We Are Tired of Mourning!' The Economy of Death and Bereavement in a Time of AIDS

The Meru and the Lutheran Church

Funeral Practices and Mourning

Negotiating Time and Money

Conclusion: Negotiating Death and the Regeneration of Life

Part V: Remembrance and Regeneration

21 Ancestors as Elders in Africa

22 The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Mapuche Shaman

Kinship, Personhood, and the Individuality of Spirits

Rosa: The German‐Mapuche Lightning Shaman Who Saved the World

Francisca Colipi: The Mestiza Lightning Shaman in the Time of Conflict

Planned Death and Ritual Finishing

Remembering Francisca

23 The Ghosts of War and the Spirit of Cosmopolitanism

Ancestors and Ghosts

Political Ghosts

The Diversity of Ghosts

The Spirit of Cosmopolitanism

24 The Intimacy of Defeat

A Massacre at Valdediós

The Reemergence of Traumatic Memories

The Intimacy of Defeat

Commemorating the Victims

WORKS CITED

Index

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Notes:

Previous ed.: Blackwell Pub., 2004

Includes bibliographical references and index

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-119-15176-7

OCLC:

967456779