Includes bibliographical references and index The Ambiguity of Mortal Remains, Substitute Bodies, and other Materializations of the Dead among the Garo of Northeast India / Erik de Maaker -- Structures and Processes of Liminality : The Shape of Mourning among the Sora of Tribal India / Piers Vitebsky Liminal Bodies, Liminal Food : Hindu and Tribal Death Rituals Compared / Peter Berger The Liminality of "Living Martyrdom" : Suicide Bombers' Preparations for Paradise / Pieter G. T. Nanninga Disappearance and Liminality : Argentina's Mourning of State Terror / Antonius C.G.M. Robben Three Dimensions of Liminality in the Context of Kyrgyz Death Rituals / Roland Hardenberg Death, Ritual, and Effervescence / Peter Berger Hungry Ghost or Divine Soul? : Post-Mortem Initiation in Medieval Shaiva Tantric Death Rites / Nina Mirnig Between Death and Judgement : Sleep as the Image of Death in Early Modern Protestantism / Justin Kroesen and Jan R. Luth Body and Soul Between Death and Funeral in Archaic Greece / Jan N. Bremmer Death, Memory and Liminality : Rethinking Lampedusa's Later Life as Author and Aristocrat / Yme B. Kuiper | 
