Death, mourning, and burial : a cross-cultural reader

Antonius C. G. M. Robben

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Acknowledgments. Death and Anthropology: An Introduction: Antonius C. G. M. Robben. Part I: Conceptualizations of Death. 1. Magic, Science and Religion: Bronislaw Malinowski. 2. The Terror of Death: Ernest Becker. 3. Symbolic Immortality: Robert Jay Lifton and Eric Olson. 4. The Hour of Our Death: Philippe Aries. 5. How Others Die: Reflections on the Anthropology of Death: Johannes Fabian. Part II: Death and Dying. 6. Death Omens in a Breton Memorate: Ellen Badone. 7. The Meaning of Death in Northern Cheyenne Culture: Anne S. Straus. 8. Kinds of Death and the House: Maria Catedra. 9. Displacing Suffering: The Reconstruction of Death in North America and Japan: Margaret Lock. Part III: Uncommon Death. 10. Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande: E. E. Evans-Pritchard. 11. Burial Alive: Godfrey Lienhardt. 12. State Terror in the Netherworld: Disappearance and Reburial in Argentina: Antonius C. G. M. Robben. Part IV: Grief and Mourning. 13. The Andaman Islanders: A. R. Radcliffe-Brown. 14. Metaphors of Mediation in Greek Funeral Laments: Loring M. Danforth. 15. Grief and a Headhunter's Rage: Renato Rosaldo. 16. Death Without Weeping: Nancy Scheper-Hughes. Part V: Mortuary Rituals. 17. A Contribution to the Study of the Collective Representation of Death: Robert Hertz. 18. The Rites of Passage: Arnold van Gennep. 19. The Phase of Negated Death: Hikaru Suzuki. 20. 'Thus are our bodies, thus was our custom': Mortuary Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society: Beth A. Conklin. Part VI: Remembrance and Regeneration. 21. Sacrificial Death and the Necrophagous Ascetic: Jonathan Parry. 22. The 19th-Century Tlingit Potlatch: A New Perspective: Sergei Kan. 23. Dead Bodies Animate the Study of Politics: Katherine Verdery. Index.

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