A Companion to the Anthropology of Death

A thought–provoking examination of death, dying, and the afterlife Prominent scholars present their most recent work about mortuary rituals, grief and mourning, genocide, cyclical processes of life and death, biomedical developments, and the materiality of human corpses in this unique and illuminating book. Interrogating our most common practices surrounding death, the authors ask such questions as: How does the state wrest away control over the dead from bereaved relatives? Why do many mourners refuse to cut their emotional ties to the dead and nurture lasting bonds? Is death a final condition or can human remains acquire agency? The book is a refreshing reassessment of these issues and practices, a source of theoretical inspiration in the study of death. With contributions written by an international team of experts in their fields, A Companion to the Anthropology of Death is presented in six parts and covers such subjects as: Governing the Dead in Guatemala; After Death Communications (ADCs) in North America; Cryonic Suspension in the Secular Age; Blood and Organ Donation in China; The Fragility of Biomedicine; and more. A Companion to the Anthropology of Death is a comprehensive and accessible volume and an ideal resource for senior undergraduate and graduate students in courses such as Anthropology of Death, Medical Anthropology, Anthropology of Violence, Anthropology of the Body, and Political Anthropology. Written by leading international scholars in their fields A comprehensive survey of the most recent empirical research in the anthropology of death A fundamental critique of the early 20th century founding fathers of the anthropology of death Cross–cultural texts from tribal and industrial societies The collection is of interest to anyone concerned with the consequences of the state and massive violence on life and death INDICE: Notes on Contributors .An Anthropology of Death for the Twenty–First Century Antonius C. G. M. Robben .Part I  Mortuary Rituals .1 Governing the Dead in Guatemala: Public Authority and Dead BodiesFinn Stepputat .2 Evolving Mortuary Rituals in Contemporary JapanYohko Tsuji .3 Revealing Brands, Concealing LaborGeorge Sanders .4 Playing with Corpses: Assembling Bodies for the Dead in Southwest ChinaErik Mueggler .5 Death and Separation in Post–Conflict Timor–LesteJudith Bovensiepen .6 Migration, Death, and Conspicuous Redistribution in Southeastern NigeriaDaniel Jordan Smith .Part II  Emotions .7 After Death: Event, Narrative, FeelingMichael Lambek .8 Reflections on the Work of Recovery, I and IIBeth A. Conklin .9 The Pursuit of Sorrow and the Ethics of CryingOlivier Allard .10 Mourning as MutualityJason Danely .11 A Comparative Study of Jewish–Israeli and Buddhist–Khmer Trauma Descendant Discontinued Bonds with the Genocide DeadCarol A. Kidron .12 Facing Death: On Mourning, Empathy and FinitudeDevin Flaherty and C. Jason Throop .Part III  Massive Death .13 What is a Mass Grave? Toward an Anthropology of Human Remains Treatment in Contemporary Contexts of Mass ViolenceÉlisabeth Anstett .14 Death on the Move: Pantheons and Reburials in Spanish Civil War ExhumationsFrancisco Ferrándiz .15 Accountability for Mass Death, Acts of Rescue and Silence in RwandaJennie E. Burnet .16 Impassable Visions: The Cambodia to Come, the Detritus in its WakeHudson McFann and Alexander Laban Hinton .17 Experience, Empathy, and Flexibility: On Participant Observation in Deadly FieldsIvana Maèek .Part IV  Regeneration .18 Learning How to DieRobert Desjarlais .19 Whirlpools, Glitter and Ferocious Intruders: The Palpability of Death in Chachi AnimismIstvan Praet .20 Shamanic Rebirth and the Paradox of Disremembering the Dead among Mapuche in ChileAna Mariella Bacigalupo .21 After Death Communications (ADCs): Signs from the Other World in Contemporary North AmericaEllen Badone .22 Cryonic Suspension as Eschatological Technology in the Secular AgeAbou Farman .Part V  Corporeal Materiality .23 From Here and to Death: The Archaeology of the Human BodyLiv Nilsson Stutz .24 Death, Corporeality and Uncertainty in ZimbabweJoost Fontein .25 Death, Power, and Silence: Native Nations Ancestral Remains at the Carlisle Barracks, PennsylvaniaJacqueline Fear–Segal .26 In the Absence of a Corpse: Rituals for Body Donors in the NetherlandsSophie Bolt .27 Death as Spectacle: Plastinated Bodies in GermanyUli Linke .Part VI  Biomedical Issues .28 The Body as Medicine: Blood and Organ Donation in ChinaCharlotte Ikels .29 Ethical Dilemmas in the Field: Witchcraft and Biomedical Aetiology in South AfricaIsak Niehaus .30 The Disappearance of Dying and Why it MattersHelen Stanton Chapple .31 The Fragility of Biomedicine: Death, Detachment and Moral Dilemmas of Care in a Kenyan HospitalRuth J. Prince .32 The New Normal: Mediated Death and Assisted Dying in the United StatesFrances Norwood .Index . 

• ISBN: 978-1-119-22229-3
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 544
• Fecha Publicación: 22/05/2018
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés