Anastasios Panagiotopoulos is a senior post-doctoral researcher at Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia – Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. His research includes the role of divination in Afro-Cuban religiosity, as this is related to issues of personhood, the historical imagination, race and secularism, among others.

“The chapters in this book are scholarly and sophisticated, their data and conceptual approaches clearly stated. What makes this an original and fascinating contribution to end of life studies is the common focus on “sustaining necrographies,” culturally specific narratives of the active overlap between the concerns of the living and the interests and experiences of their dead. This book is an impressive piece of scholarship, is clearly written, and offers an unexpected approach to the subject of death that is timely and fascinating.” • James W. Green, University of Washington

• IntroductionAnastasios Panagiotopoulos and Diana Espírito SantoPART I: NECROGRAPHIC FRAMEWORKSChapter 1. Voices and Silences of the Dead in Western ModernityTony WalterChapter 2. Coping with Massive Urban Death: The Mutual Constitution of Mourning and Recovery in World War Two's Bombing WarAntonius C.G.M. RobbenChapter 3. Biographies and Necrographies in Exchange: From the Self to the OtherAnastasios PanagiotopoulosPART II: NECROGRAPHIC OBSERVATIONSChapter 4. The Making of Spirit Bodies and Death Perspectives in Afro-Cuban ReligionDiana Espírito SantoChapter 5. Sensory Necrography: The Flow of Signs and Sensations in the CorpseBeth ConklinChapter 6. Unanchored Deaths: Grieving the Unplaceable in SamburuBilinda StraightChapter 7. The Sociality of Death: Life Potentialities and the Vietnamese DeadMarina MaroudaChapter 8. Enlightened Spirits: A Historical-anthropological Perspective on Spiritism, Science, Modernity and the Vitality of Spirits under NeoliberalismRaquel RombergChapter 9. Channeling the Flow: Dealing with Death in an African-based ReligionGabriel BanaggiaChapter 10. Of Shadows and Fears: Nepalese Ghost Stories from Classical Texts and Folklore to the Social MediaDavide TorriChapter 11. Death isn't What it Used to Be: Animist and Baptist Ontologies in Tribal IndiaPiers VitebskyAfterword: The Necrographic ImaginationMagnus CourseIndex