Death, mourning, and burial : a cross-cultural reader /
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Malden, MA :
Blackwell Pub.,
2004.
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. I. Conceptualizations of death. Magic, science and religion
- The terror of death
- Symbolic immortality
- The hour of our death
- How others die: reflections on the anthropology of death
- Pt. II. Death and dying. Death omens in a Breton memorate
- The meaning of death in Northern Cheyenne culture
- Kinds of death and the house
- Displacing suffering: the reconstruction of death in North America and Japan
- Pt. III. Uncommon death. Witchcraft, oracles and magic among the Azande
- Burial alive
- State terror in the Netherworld: disappearance and reburial in Argentina
- Pt. IV. Grief and mourning. The Andaman Islanders
- Metaphors of mediation in Greek funeral laments
- Grief and a headhunter's rage
- Death without weeping
- Pt. V. Mortuary rituals. A contribution to the study of the collective representation of death
- The rites of passage
- The phase of negated death
- "Thus are our bodies, thus was our custom": mortuary cannibalism in an Amazonian society
- Pt. VI. Remembrance and regeneration. Sacrificial death and the necrophagous ascetic
- The nineteenth-century Tlingit potlatch: a new perspective
- Dead bodies animate the study of politics.
