Waubonsee Community College

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

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

index present

non fiction

Death, mourning, and burial

bibliography

55595551

edited by Antonius C.G.M. Robben

a cross-cultural reader

The six sections of this book mirror the social trajectory of death amd include canonical readings as well as recent studies on topics including organ donation and cannibalism

pt. I. 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 -- pt. II. 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 -- pt. III. Uncommon death. Witchcraft, oracles and magic among the Azande -- Burial alive -- State terror in the Netherworld: disappearance and reburial in Argentinapt. IV. Grief and mourning. The Andaman Islanders -- Metaphors of mediation in Greek funeral laments -- Grief and a headhunter's rage -- Death without weeping -- pt. V. 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 -- pt. VI. Remembrance and regeneration. Sacrificial death and the necrophagous ascetic -- The nineteenth-century Tlingit potlatch: a new perspective -- Dead bodies animate the study of politics