Death, Mourning, and Burial

A Cross-Cultural Reader

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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The definitive reference on the anthropology of death and dying, expanded with new contributions covering everything from animal mourning to mortuary cannibalismFew 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. A thoroughly revised edition of this classic anthology featuring twenty-three new articles, two new sections, and three reformulated sectionsUpdated to include current topics, including organ transplantation, institutionalized care for the dying, HIV-AIDs, animal mourning, and biotechnologyMust reading for anyone concerned with issues of death and dying, as well as violence, terrorism, war, state terror, organ theft, and mortuary ritualsServes as a text for anthropology classes and provides a genuinely cross-cultural perspective to all those studying death and dying

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-06-20
Mått:188 x 244 x 20 mm
Vikt:635 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:368
Upplaga:2
Förlag:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN:9781119151746

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Servicesektorn inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

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ANTONIUS C.G.M. ROBBEN, PhD, is Professor of Anthropology at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and past President of the Netherlands Society of Anthropology. His authored books include Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina (2005), which won the 2006 Textor Prize from the American Anthropological Association, and his edited work includes Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader, Second Edition (Wiley Blackwell, 2012) and the forthcoming A Companion to the Anthropology of Death (Wiley Blackwell, 2018).

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments viiiDeath and Anthropology: An Introduction 1Antonius C. G. M. RobbenPart I Conceptualizations of Death 171 A Contribution to the Study of the Collective Representation of Death 19Robert Hertz2 The Rites of Passage 34Arnold van Gennep3 Symbolic Immortality 44Robert Jay Lifton and Eric Olson4 Remembering as Cultural Process 52Elizabeth Hallam and Jenny Hockey5 Massive Violent Death and Contested National Mourning in Post‐Authoritarian Chile and Argentina: A Sociocultural Application of the Dual Process Model 64Antonius C. G. M. RobbenPart II Death, Dying, and Care 776 Magic, Science and Religion 79Bronislaw Malinowski7 Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande 83E. E. Evans‐Pritchard8 Living Cadavers and the Calculation of Death 90Margaret Lock9 All Eyes on Egypt: Islam and the Medical Use of Dead Bodies amidst Cairo’s Political Unrest 102Sherine Hamdy10 The Optimal Sacrifice: A Study of Voluntary Death among the Siberian Chukchi 115Rane Willerslev11 Love’s Labor Paid for: Gift and Commodity at the Threshold of Death 129Ann Julienne RussPart III Grief and Mourning 14912 The Andaman Islanders 151A. R. Radcliffe‐Brown13 Grief and a Headhunter’s Rage 156Renato Rosaldo14 Death Without Weeping 167Nancy Scheper‐Hughes15 Three Days for Weeping: Dreams, Emotions, and Death in the Peruvian Amazon 181Glenn H. Shepard Jr.16 The Expression of Grief in Monkeys, Apes, and Other Animals 202Barbara J. KingPart IV Mortuary Rituals and Epidemics 20917 Hunting the Ancestors: Death and Alliance in Wari’ Cannibalism 211Beth A. Conklin18 State Terror in the Netherworld: Disappearance and Reburial in Argentina 217Antonius C. G. M. Robben19 Mourning Becomes Eclectic: Death of Communal Practice in a Greek Cemetery 231Diane O’Rourke20 ‘We Are Tired of Mourning!’ The Economy of Death and Bereavement in a Time of AIDS 250Liv HaramPart V Remembrance and Regeneration 26321 Ancestors as Elders in Africa 265Igor Kopytoff22 The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Mapuche Shaman: Remembering, Disremembering, and the Willful Transformation of Memory 276Ana Mariella Bacigalupo23 The Ghosts of War and the Spirit of Cosmopolitanism 293Heonik Kwon24 The Intimacy of Defeat: Exhumations in Contemporary Spain 306Francisco FerrandizIndex 319