Death, Mourning, and Burial (eBook)

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).

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 NorthAmerica 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: JonathanParry.
22. The 19th-Century Tlingit Potlatch: A New Perspective: SergeiKan.
23. Dead Bodies Animate the Study of Politics: KatherineVerdery.
Index.

"I enjoyed this volume immensely; Robben's due care in compiling it is evident throughout, and I have no doubt that it will become an invaluable collection, particularly for those interested in the anthropology of death, but also for others." (Anthropological Forum)"An invaluable resource, this enormously welcome volumetraces the historical development of the cross-cultural study ofdeath and provides readers the luxury of a single-volume collectionof anthropology's classic contributions to thefield."
-Jenny Hockey, University of Sheffield