Death, mourning, and burial
Subtitle: a cross-cultural reader
By: edited by Antonius C.G.M. Robben.
Contributors: Robben, Antonius C. G. M.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9781405114714; 9781405114707
Subjects: Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Cross-cultural studies; Mourning customs -- Cross-cultural studies; Death -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. I. Conceptualizations of death. Magic, science and religion; title: The terror of death; title: Symbolic immortality; title: The hour of our death; title: How others die: reflections on the anthropology of death; title: Pt. II. Death and dying. Death omens in a Breton memorate; title: The meaning of death in Northern Cheyenne culture; title: Kinds of death and the house; title: Displacing suffering: the reconstruction of death in North America and Japan; title: Pt. III. Uncommon death. Witchcraft, oracles and magic among the Azande; title: Burial alive; title: State terror in the Netherworld: disappearance and reburial in Argentina; title: Pt. IV. Grief and mourning. The Andaman Islanders; title: Metaphors of mediation in Greek funeral laments; title: Grief and a headhunter's rage; title: Death without weeping; title: Pt. V. Mortuary rituals. A contribution to the study of the collective representation of death; title: The rites of passage; title: The phase of negated death; title: "Thus are our bodies, thus was our custom": mortuary cannibalism in an Amazonian society; title: Pt. VI. Remembrance and regeneration. Sacrificial death and the necrophagous ascetic; title: The nineteenth-century Tlingit potlatch: a new perspective; title: Dead bodies animate the study of politics.