{"product_id":"a-companion-to-the-anthropology-of-death-9781119222293","title":"A Companion to the Anthropology of Death","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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 Communica\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Anthropology of Death for the Twenty‐First Century xv\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAntonius C. G. M. Robben\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Mortuary Rituals 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Governing the Dead in Guatemala: Public Authority and Dead Bodies 3\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinn Stepputat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Evolving Mortuary Rituals in Contemporary Japan 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eYohko Tsuji\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Revealing Brands, Concealing Labor 31\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeorge Sanders\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Playing with Corpses: Assembling Bodies for the Dead in Southwest China 45\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eErik Mueggler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Death and Separation in Postconflict Timor‐Leste 59\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJudith Bovensiepen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Migration, Death, and Conspicuous Redistribution in Southeastern Nigeria 71\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaniel Jordan Smith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Emotions 85\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 After Death: Event, Narrative, Feeling 87\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Lambek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Reflections on the Work of Recovery, I and II 103\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeth A. Conklin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The Pursuit of Sorrow and the Ethics of Crying 117\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOlivier Allard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Mourning as Mutuality 131\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJason Danely\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 A Comparative Study of Jewish Israeli and Buddhist Khmer Trauma Descendant Discontinued Bonds with the Genocide Dead 145\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarol A. Kidron\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Facing Death: On Mourning, Empathy, and Finitude 161\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDevin Flaherty and C. Jason Throop\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Massive Death 175\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 What Is a Mass Grave? Toward an Anthropology of Human Remains Treatment in Contemporary Contexts of Mass Violence 177\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eÉlisabeth Anstett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Death on the Move: Pantheons and Reburials in Spanish Civil War Exhumations 189\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrancisco Ferrándiz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Accountability for Mass Death, Acts of Rescue, and Silence in Rwanda 205\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJennie E. Burnet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Impassable Visions: The Cambodia to Come, the Detritus in its Wake 223\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHudson McFann and Alexander Laban Hinton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Experience, Empathy, and Flexibility: On Participant Observation in Deadly Fields 237\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIvana Maceǩ\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Regeneration 249\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Learning How to Die 251\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert Desjarlais\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Whirlpools, Glitter, and Ferocious Intruders: The Palpability of Death in Chachi Animism 265\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIstvan Praet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Shamanic Rebirth and the Paradox of Disremembering the Dead among Mapuche in Chile 279\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAna Mariella Bacigalupo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 After‐Death Communications: Signs from the Other World in Contemporary North America 293\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEllen Badone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Cryonic Suspension as Eschatological Technology in the Secular Age 307\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbou Farman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V Corporeal Materiality 321\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 From Here and to Death: The Archaeology of the Human Body 323\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiv Nilsson Stutz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Death, Corporeality, and Uncertainty in Zimbabwe 337\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoost Fontein\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Death, Power, and Silence: Native Nations’ Ancestral Remains at the Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania 357\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJacqueline Fear‐Segal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 In the Absence of a Corpse: Rituals for Body Donors in the Netherlands 371\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSophie Bolt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Death as Spectacle: Plastinated Bodies in Germany 383\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUli Linke\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI Biomedical Issues 399\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 The Body as Medicine: Blood and Organ Donation in China 401\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharlotte Ikels\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Ethical Dilemmas in the Field: Witchcraft and Biomedical Etiology in South Africa 415\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIsak Niehaus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 The Disappearance of Dying, and Why It Matters 429\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHelen Stanton Chapple\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 Death, Detachment, and Moral Dilemmas of Care in a Kenyan Hospital 445\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRuth J. 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