Igbo Funeral Rites is about the rigorous and complex nature of death and burial obsequies in Igboland. Analytical as it is descriptive and anthropological as it is theological, the book is an attempt
We tend to think of death as a basic and immutable fact of life. Yet death, too, has a history. Death in Berlin traces the rituals, practices, perceptions, and sensibilities surrounding death in the context of Berlin's multiple transformations over the decades between Germany's defeat in World War I and the construction of the Berlin Wall. Evocatively illustrated and drawing on a rich collection of sources, Monica Black reveals the centrality of death to the evolving moral and social life of one metropolitan community. In doing so, she connects the intimacies of everyday life and death to events on the grand historical stage that changed the lives of millions - all in a city that stood at the center of some of the twentieth century's most transformative events.
A funeral closes a life story, and a grave in a cemetery marks its end forever. But what happens when those left behind don’t agree about the meaning of that story? Or when that disagreement ex
Based on extensive fieldwork, Nature’s Embrace reveals the emerging pluralization of death rites in postindustrial Japan. Low birth rates and high numbers of people remaining permanently single have l
Journey into the extraordinary world of life after death. Delve into the dark secrets of the mummies of ancient Egypt and the tombs of beautiful princesses and warrior kings.
Ritualizing the Disposal of the Deceased traces mortuary behavior from the early fossil record to modern religious contexts in diverse cultural settings. By using archival and ethnographic evidence fr
Evolutionary and cognitive anthropologist McCorkle has revised his 2007 Ph.D. dissertation at Queen's University, Belfast, removing much the statistical data to make room to elaborate his arguments, a
Based on the author's fieldwork at the Tokyo offices of a company that offers grave-free funeral services, this text presents a fascinating account of the new practice of ash-scattering in Japan that
Based on an intensive course in burial archaeology given by Duday in 2004, and on his experience of excavating human burials across the world, this book looks at the way in which the analysis of skele
Originally published in Swedish in 2002, Death, Modernity, and the Body explores the impact of modernization on customs and practices surrounding the dead body in Sweden in the late nineteenth and ea
The creators of Grossology continue the icky, sticky history lesson! The second title in our new sub-series of All Aboard Reading is about mummies from around the world. With hilarious illustrations
Why were mummies mummified? These mysterious corpses provide a fascinating window on the past of cultures worldwide. Mummies has plenty of ghoulish intrigue to keep young readers reading. This irresis
From reckless dis-interments to a mid-summer gravediggers' strike to the illegal shifting of bones from untended graves, In the Land of Long Fingernails is the story of coming of age among extraordin
The Victorian period has been described as the 'Great Age of Death'. The customs of death, notably burial and mourning, were taken very seriously and elaborate rituals of commemoration were part of ev
The funeral is dead. Today, many people are forgoing the maudlin trappings and timeworn rituals of traditional funerals and instead opting to celebrate their loved ones’ lives in ways that are much mo
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Have you ever been at a funeral, turned to the person sitting with you and said, “I never want you to do this to me. When the time comes, remember I'd like …” Well, this is a book t
"Fitzsimmons is the first to attempt to survey the entire corpus of Lowland Maya hieroglyphic texts, iconography, and archaeological site documentation relating to royal death, burial, and afterlife.
