A companion to the anthropology of death /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
Other Authors: Robben, Antonius C. G. M. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018.
Series:Blackwell companions to anthropology ; 32.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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 nourning, 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 (ADCs) : 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 aetiology in South Africa / Isak Niehaus
  • The disappearance of dying and why it matters / Helen Stanton Chapple
  • The fragility of biomedicine : 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.