Research Catalog

Title

Death, mourning, and burial : a cross-cultural reader / edited by Antonius C.G.M. Robben.

Publication

• Hoboken, NJ, USA : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

Robben, Antonius C. G. M.

Description

x, 351 pages : maps; 25 cm

Subject

• Funeral rites and ceremonies > Cross-cultural studies
• Funeral rites and ceremonies

Genre/Form

Cross-cultural studies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Death and Anthropology : An Introduction / Antonius C.G.M. Robben -- Part I. Conceptualizations of Death. A Contribution to the Study of the Collective Representation of Death / Robert Hertz -- The Rites of Passage / Arnold van Gennep -- Symbolic Immortality / Robert Jay Lifton and Eric Olson -- Remembering as Cultural Process / Elizabeth Hallam and Jenny Hockey -- Massive Violent Death and Contested National Mourning in Post-Authoritarian Chile and Argentina : A Sociocultural Application of the Dual Process Model / Antonius C.G.M. Robben -- Part II. Death, Dying, and Care. Magic, Science and Religion / Bronislaw Malinowski -- Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande / E.E. Evans-Pritchard -- Living Cadavers and the Calculation of Death / Margaret Lock -- All Eyes on Egypt : Islam and the Medical Use of Dead Bodies amidst Cairo's Political Unrest / Sherine Hamdy -- The Optimal Sacrifice : A Study of Voluntary Death among the Siberian Chukchi / Rane Willerslev -- Love's Labor Paid for : Gift and Commodity at the Threshold of Death / Ann Julienne Russ -- Part III. Grief and Mourning. The Andaman Islanders / A.R. Radcliffe-Brown -- Grief and a Headhunter's Rage / Renato Rosaldo -- Death Without Weeping / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- Three Days for Weeping : Dreams, Emotions, and Death in the Peruvian Amazon / Glenn H. Shepard Jr. -- The Expression of Grief in Monkeys, Apes, and Other Animals / Barbara J. King -- Part IV. Mortuary Rituals and Epidemics. Hunting the Ancestors : Death and Alliance in Wari' Cannibalism / Beth A. Conklin -- State Terror in the Netherworld : Disappearance and Reburial in Argentina / Antonius C.G.M. Robben -- Mourning Becomes Eclectic : Death of Communal Practice in a Greek Cemetery / Diane O'Rourke -- 'We Are Tired of Mourning!' : The Economy of Death and Bereavement in a Time of AIDS / Liv Haram -- Part V. Remembrance and Regeneration. Ancestors as Elders in Africa / Igor Kopytoff -- The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Mapuche Shaman : Remembering, Disremembering, and the Willful Transformation of Memory / Ana Mariella Bacigalupo -- The Ghosts of War and the Spirit of Cosmopolitanism / Heonik Kwon -- The Intimacy of Defeat : Exhumations in Contemporary Spain / Francisco Ferrándiz.

Call Number

JFF 17-1266

ISBN

• 9781119151746
• 1119151740

LCCN

2016058001

OCLC

966971628

Title

Death, mourning, and burial : a cross-cultural reader / edited by Antonius C.G.M. Robben.

Publisher

Hoboken, NJ, USA : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Edition

Second edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Robben, Antonius C. G. M., editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Death, mourning, and burial. Second Edition. Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017 9781119151753 (DLC) 2016058951

Research Call Number

JFF 17-1266