Death, Mourning, and Burial A Cross-Cultural Reader

Name: Death, Mourning, and Burial A Cross-Cultural Reader
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ISBN: 9781405114714

ISBN-10: 1405114711

ISBN-13: 9781405114714

Edition: 2005

Authors: Antonius C. G. M. Robben

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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,…

Book details

List price: $54.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/24/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Antonius C. G. M. Robben is Professor of Anthropology at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and past President of the Netherlands Society of Anthropology. His recent books are Cultures under Siege: Collective Violence and Trauma (edited with Marcelo Sufrez-Orozco, 2000) and Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina (2005).



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 Headhunter's 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




'Thus are our bodies, thus was our custom': 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