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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Malden, Massachusetts : Blackwell Pub., (c)2004.Description: x, 322 pages ; 26 cmContent type:
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  • GN486.R631.D438 2004
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Contents:
Antonius C.G.M. Robben -- Magic, science and religion Bronislaw Malinowski -- The terror of death Ernest Becker -- Symbolic immortality Robert Jay Lifton and Eric Olson -- The hour of our death Philippe Aries -- How others die : reflections on the anthropology of death Johannes Fabian -- Death omens in a Breton memorate Ellen Badone -- The meaning of death in Northern Cheyenne culture Anne S. Straus -- Kinds of death and the house Maria Catedra -- Displacing suffering : the reconstruction of death in North America and Japan Margaret Lock -- Witchcraft, oracles and magic among the Azande E.E. Evans-Pritchard -- Burial alive Godfrey Lienhardt -- State terror in the netherworld : disappearance and reburial in Argentina Antonius C.G.M. Robben -- The Andaman Islanders A.R. Radcliffe-Brown -- Metaphors of mediation in Greek funeral laments Loring H. Danforth -- Grief and a headhunter's rage Renato Rosaldo -- Death without weeping Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- A contribution to the study of the collective representation of death Robert Hertz -- The rites of passage Arnold van Gennep -- The phase of negated death Hikaru Suzuki -- "Thus are our bodies, thus was our custom" : mortuary cannibalism in an Amazonian society Beth A. Conklin -- Sacrificial death and the necrophagous ascetic Jonathan Parry -- The nineteenth-century Tlingit potlatch : a new perspective Sergei Kan -- Dead bodies animate the study of politics Katherine Verdery.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Death and anthropology : an introduction Antonius C.G.M. Robben -- Magic, science and religion Bronislaw Malinowski -- The terror of death Ernest Becker -- Symbolic immortality Robert Jay Lifton and Eric Olson -- The hour of our death Philippe Aries -- How others die : reflections on the anthropology of death Johannes Fabian -- Death omens in a Breton memorate Ellen Badone -- The meaning of death in Northern Cheyenne culture Anne S. Straus -- Kinds of death and the house Maria Catedra -- Displacing suffering : the reconstruction of death in North America and Japan Margaret Lock -- Witchcraft, oracles and magic among the Azande E.E. Evans-Pritchard -- Burial alive Godfrey Lienhardt -- State terror in the netherworld : disappearance and reburial in Argentina Antonius C.G.M. Robben -- The Andaman Islanders A.R. Radcliffe-Brown -- Metaphors of mediation in Greek funeral laments Loring H. Danforth -- Grief and a headhunter's rage Renato Rosaldo -- Death without weeping Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- A contribution to the study of the collective representation of death Robert Hertz -- The rites of passage Arnold van Gennep -- The phase of negated death Hikaru Suzuki -- "Thus are our bodies, thus was our custom" : mortuary cannibalism in an Amazonian society Beth A. Conklin -- Sacrificial death and the necrophagous ascetic Jonathan Parry -- The nineteenth-century Tlingit potlatch : a new perspective Sergei Kan -- Dead bodies animate the study of politics Katherine Verdery.

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