Title:
Death, mourning, and burial : a cross-cultural reader / edited by Antonius C.G.M. Robben.
Author:
Robben, Antonius C. G. M., editor.
Publication Information:
Hoboken, NJ, USA : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018.
©2018
Call Number:
GN486 .D43 2018
Abstract:
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 by sixteen 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. -- ‡c From back cover.
Edition:
Second edition.
ISBN:
9781119151746
Physical Description:
x, 351 pages ; 25 cm
Contents:
Death and Anthropology : An Introduction / Antonius C.G.M. Robben -- Part I. Conceptualizations of Death. A Contribution to the Study of the Collective Representation of Death / Robert Hertz -- The Rites of Passage / Arnold van Gennep -- Symbolic Immortality / Robert Jay Lifton and Eric Olson -- Remembering as Cultural Process / Elizabeth Hallam and Jenny Hockey -- Massive Violent Death and Contested National Mourning in Post-Authoritarian Chile and Argentina : A Sociocultural Application of the Dual Process Model / Antonius C.G.M. Robben -- Part II. Death, Dying, and Care. Magic, Science and Religion / Bronislaw Malinowski -- Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande / E.E. Evans-Pritchard -- Living Cadavers and the Calculation of Death / Margaret Lock -- All Eyes on Egypt : Islam and the Medical Use of Dead Bodies amidst Cairo's Political Unrest / Sherine Hamdy -- The Optimal Sacrifice : A Study of Voluntary Death among the Siberian Chukchi / Rane Willerslev -- Love's Labor Paid for : Gift and Commodity at the Threshold of Death / Ann Julienne Russ -- Part III. Grief and Mourning. The Andaman Islanders / A.R. Radcliffe-Brown -- Grief and a Headhunter's Rage / Renato Rosaldo -- Death Without Weeping / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- Three Days for Weeping : Dreams, Emotions, and Death in the Peruvian Amazon / Glenn H. Shepard Jr. -- The Expression of Grief in Monkeys, Apes, and Other Animals / Barbara J. King -- Part IV. Mortuary Rituals and Epidemics. Hunting the Ancestors : Death and Alliance in Wari' Cannibalism / Beth A. Conklin -- State Terror in the Netherworld : Disappearance and Reburial in Argentina / Antonius C.G.M. Robben -- Mourning Becomes Eclectic : Death of Communal Practice in a Greek Cemetery / Diane O'Rourke -- 'We Are Tired of Mourning!' : The Economy of Death and Bereavement in a Time of AIDS / Liv Haram -- Part V. Remembrance and Regeneration. Ancestors as Elders in Africa / Igor Kopytoff -- The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Mapuche Shaman : Remembering, Disremembering, and the Willful Transformation of Memory / Ana Mariella Bacigalupo -- The Ghosts of War and the Spirit of Cosmopolitanism / Heonik Kwon -- The Intimacy of Defeat : Exhumations in Contemporary Spain / Francisco Ferrándiz.
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