Death, mourning, and burial : a cross-cultural reader / [print]
edited by Antonius C.G.M. Robben.
- Malden, Massachusetts : Blackwell Pub., (c)2004.
- x, 322 pages ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Death and anthropology : an introduction Magic, science and religion The terror of death Symbolic immortality The hour of our death How others die : reflections on the anthropology of death 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 Witchcraft, oracles and magic among the Azande Burial alive State terror in the netherworld : disappearance and reburial in Argentina The Andaman Islanders Metaphors of mediation in Greek funeral laments Grief and a headhunter's rage Death without weeping 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 Sacrificial death and the necrophagous ascetic The nineteenth-century Tlingit potlatch : a new perspective Dead bodies animate the study of politics Antonius C.G.M. Robben -- Bronislaw Malinowski -- Ernest Becker -- Robert Jay Lifton and Eric Olson -- Philippe Aries -- Johannes Fabian -- Ellen Badone -- Anne S. Straus -- Maria Catedra -- Margaret Lock -- E.E. Evans-Pritchard -- Godfrey Lienhardt -- Antonius C.G.M. Robben -- A.R. Radcliffe-Brown -- Loring H. Danforth -- Renato Rosaldo -- Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- Robert Hertz -- Arnold van Gennep -- Hikaru Suzuki -- Beth A. Conklin -- Jonathan Parry -- Sergei Kan -- Katherine Verdery.