Anthropology of consciousness.
By: guest editor, Kathleen Young.
Contributors: Young, Kathleen.; American Anthropological Association.; Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness (U.S.)
Publisher: American Anthropological Association
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Arlington, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 93
Subjects: Death; Thanatology
Other titles: Anthropology and the body; Western Collection.
Notes: "The papers in this volume were all written by undergraduate students at Western Washington University for the class, 'The anthropology of death and dying,' and presented at sessions of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness in 1998 and 1999."

WWU Faculty member, 1996-; Students, 1998-1999.

Western Collection copy gift of Kathleen Young.
Table of contents: title: Introduction -- Kathleen Young; title: Concepts of death among professional alpine climbers : continuing risk behaviors in the face of death -- Paul E. James II; title: Field play : the normalization of an alternate cognizance in seriously ill children -- Kevin Saxton and Elke Goversten; title: Collective Bahaii identity through embodied persecution : "be ye the fingers of one hand, the members of one body" -- Curtis Humes and Katherine Clark; title: Death and the corpse : an analysis of the treatment of death and dead bodies in contemporary American Society -- Elizabeth J. Emerick; title: Preparing for the pure land -- Hsien Hui Shih; title: Reburying the dead : the effects of NAGPRA on our relationships and obligations to the deceased in defining our death consciousness -- Justin Colquhoun; title: Living in death : the evolution of modern vampirism -- Cheryl Atwater; title: Doctors, nurses, and patients : who has control over death and dying -- Siv Kristin Ostlund; title: Indigenism : ethnic politics in Brazil by Alcida Rita Ramos -- Lourdes Giordani.