Death, Mourning, and Burial A Cross-Cultural Reader.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Robben, Antonius C. G. M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 1991.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Temas:
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Death and Anthropology: An Introduction
  • Conceptualizations of Death
  • Death, Dying, and Care
  • Grief and Mourning
  • Mortuary Rituals and Epidemics
  • Remembrance and Regeneration
  • Future of the Anthropology of Death
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • Part I: Conceptualizations of Death
  • 1 A Contribution to the Study of the Collective Representation of Death
  • 1. The Intermediary Period
  • 2. The Final Ceremony
  • 3. Conclusion
  • 2 The Rites of Passage
  • Funerals
  • 3 Symbolic Immortality
  • 4 Remembering as Cultural Process
  • Memory Making
  • Materialities and Social Practices
  • Memory Materials in Cultural and Historical Perspectives
  • Bodies in Time/Materials in Memory
  • Material Memories: Contemporary Concerns
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • 5 Massive Violent Death and Contested National Mourning in Post-Authoritarian Chile and Argentina
  • National Mourning after Massive Violent Death
  • Retribution and Remembrance in Argentina
  • Reparation and the Pursuit of Reconciliation in Chile
  • Conclusion
  • REFERENCES
  • Part II: Death, Dying, and Care
  • 6 Magic, Science and Religion
  • Death and the Reintegration of the Group
  • 7 Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande
  • 8 Living Cadavers and the Calculation of Death
  • Preamble
  • Inventing a New Death
  • When Bodies Outlive Persons
  • Doubts among the Certainty
  • The Brain Death 'Problem'
  • Public Commentary on Brain Death
  • Summary
  • REFERENCES
  • 9 All Eyes on Egypt
  • 'Right' and 'Wrong' Ideas about Eye Donation
  • Medicine's Cadavers
  • Can the Dead Feel the Knife?
  • A New Way Forward: The 2011-12 Cornea Donation Campaign
  • Conclusions
  • REFERENCES
  • 10 The Optimal Sacrifice
  • Problems with the study of voluntary death
  • The ownership and possession of souls
  • The soul as helper of and traitor to its possessor
  • Suicide
  • "a woman's death"
  • Sacrifice as substitution
  • Voluntary death as sacrifice
  • REFERENCES CITED
  • 11 Love's Labor Paid for: Gift and Commodity at the Threshold of Death
  • Reconciling Life and Death: The Spirit of Care
  • Gift and Commodity: A Phenomenology of Exchange
  • The Limits of Caring: Living the Contradictions of Intimate Exchange
  • Negotiating the Unnegotiable: Commodification and Regeneration
  • The Abundance of Loss: Problems of Terminality and Retention
  • Death Given and Received
  • REFERENCES CITED
  • Part III: Grief and Mourning
  • 12 The Andaman Islanders
  • REFERENCE
  • 13 Grief and a Headhunter's Rage
  • The Rage in Ilongot Grief
  • How I Found the Rage in Grief
  • Death in Anthropology
  • Grief, Rage, and Ilongot Headhunting
  • Summary
  • 14 Death Without Weeping
  • Mortal Ills, Fated Deaths
  • Angel-Babies: The Velório de Anjinhos
  • Grief Work: A Political Economy of the Emotions
  • Death Without Weeping
  • REFERENCES
  • 15 Three Days for Weeping
  • Matsigenka: "The People"
  • A Message from Afar

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