Elizabeth Hallam Director of Cultural History,University of Aberdeen Jenny Hockey Senior Lecturer in the School of Comparative and Applied Social Sciences, University of Hull

'Offering insights into the one certainty of human life, this exploration of practices related to death holds a fascination that proved irresistible.'Anthropology in Action'It is a book that was waiting to be written.'Bereavement Care '[The authors] offer a wide-ranging consideration of death, memory and the material world and the sociocultural processes by which they are understood and linked.'Choice

• 1 Introduction: Remembering as Cultural Process 2 Figuring Memory: Metaphors, Bodies and Material Objects 3 Time, Death and Memory 4 Spaces of Death and Memory 5 Memories Materializing: Restless Deaths 6 Visualizing death: Making Memories from Body to Image 7 Death Writing: Material Inscription and Memories 8 Ritualizing Death: Embodied Memories 9 Memories and Endings

Elizabeth Hallam Director of Cultural History,University of Aberdeen Jenny Hockey Senior Lecturer in the School of Comparative and Applied Social Sciences, University of Hull

'Offering insights into the one certainty of human life, this exploration of practices related to death holds a fascination that proved irresistible.'Anthropology in Action'It is a book that was waiting to be written.'Bereavement Care '[The authors] offer a wide-ranging consideration of death, memory and the material world and the sociocultural processes by which they are understood and linked.'Choice

• 1 Introduction: Remembering as Cultural Process 2 Figuring Memory: Metaphors, Bodies and Material Objects 3 Time, Death and Memory 4 Spaces of Death and Memory 5 Memories Materializing: Restless Deaths 6 Visualizing death: Making Memories from Body to Image 7 Death Writing: Material Inscription and Memories 8 Ritualizing Death: Embodied Memories 9 Memories and Endings

Elizabeth Hallam Director of Cultural History,University of Aberdeen Jenny Hockey Senior Lecturer in the School of Comparative and Applied Social Sciences, University of Hull

'Offering insights into the one certainty of human life, this exploration of practices related to death holds a fascination that proved irresistible.'Anthropology in Action'It is a book that was waiting to be written.'Bereavement Care '[The authors] offer a wide-ranging consideration of death, memory and the material world and the sociocultural processes by which they are understood and linked.'Choice

• 1 Introduction: Remembering as Cultural Process 2 Figuring Memory: Metaphors, Bodies and Material Objects 3 Time, Death and Memory 4 Spaces of Death and Memory 5 Memories Materializing: Restless Deaths 6 Visualizing death: Making Memories from Body to Image 7 Death Writing: Material Inscription and Memories 8 Ritualizing Death: Embodied Memories 9 Memories and Endings