Death, Mourning & Burial
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The anthology of 23 articles and chapters reprinted from publication between 1925 and 2002 is intended to provide the foundational texts in the anthropological study of death, to delineate enduring research interests, and to demonstrate the intellectual depth and breadth of the field in recent decades. They follow the trajectory from death to the afterlife through the stages of conceptualizations of death, death and dying, uncommon deaths, grief and mourning, mortuary rituals, and remembrance and regeneration. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Death and anthropology : an introductionPt. IConceptualizations of death1Magic, science and religion2The terror of death3Symbolic immortality4The hour of our death5How others die : reflections on the anthropology of deathPt. IIDeath and dying6Death omens in a Breton memorate7The meaning of death in northern Cheyenne culture8Kinds of death and the house9Displacing suffering : the reconstruction of death in North America and JapanPt. IIIUncommon death10Witchcraft, oracles and magic among the Azande11Burial alive12State terror in the netherworld : disappearance and reburial in ArgentinaPt. IVGrief and mourning13The Andaman islanders14Metaphors of mediation in Greek funeral laments15Grief and a headhunter's rage16Death without weepingPt. VMortuary rituals17A contribution to the study of the collective representation of death18The rites of passage19The phase of negated death20"Thus are our bodies, thus was our custom" : mortuary cannibalism in an Amazonian societyPt. VIRemembrance and regeneration21Sacrificial death and the necrophagous ascetic22The nineteenth-century Tlingit potlatch : a new perspective23Dead bodies animate the study of politics
