Antonius C. G. M. Robben 
Death, Mourning, and Burial 
A Cross-Cultural Reader

In Death, Mourning, and Burial, an indispensableintroduction to the anthropology of death, readers will find a richselection of some of the finest ethnographic work on thisfascinating topic.
* Comprised of six sections that mirror the social trajectory ofdeath: conceptualizations of death; death and dying; uncommondeath; grief and mourning; mortuary rituals; and remembrance andregeneration
* Includes canonical readings as well as recent studies on topicssuch as organ donation and cannibalism
* Designed for anyone concerned with issues of death and dying, as well as: violence, terrorism, war, state terror, organ theft, and mortuary rituals
* Serves as a text for anthropology classes, as well as providinga genuinely cross-cultural perspective to all those studying deathand dying

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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 Ariès.
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: María Cátedra.
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 Reburialin 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 Representationof 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.

Despre autor

Antonius C. G. M. Robben is Professor of Anthropology at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and past President of the Netherlands Society of Anthropology. His recent books are Cultures under Siege: Collective Violence and Trauma (edited with Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, 2000) and Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina (2005).