Ruth E. Toulson is an anthropologist and faculty member of the Department of Humanistic Studies at Maryland Institute College of Art. She is coeditor of The Materiality of Mourning: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach and The Cambridge Handbook of the Anthropology of Death (forthcoming).

"Ruth E. Toulson offers an intimate and unsettling ethnography of grief, ritual, and state power in contemporary Singapore. . . . One of the book's many strengths lies in moments where ethnographic detail and emotional insight converge to reveal the quiet, often painful, dislocations produced by policy. . . . [B]rilliant in its analysis of this ordinary necropolitics."

Ruth E. Toulson is an anthropologist and faculty member of the Department of Humanistic Studies at Maryland Institute College of Art. She is coeditor of The Materiality of Mourning: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach and The Cambridge Handbook of the Anthropology of Death (forthcoming).

"Ruth E. Toulson offers an intimate and unsettling ethnography of grief, ritual, and state power in contemporary Singapore. . . . One of the book's many strengths lies in moments where ethnographic detail and emotional insight converge to reveal the quiet, often painful, dislocations produced by policy. . . . [B]rilliant in its analysis of this ordinary necropolitics."