ISBN:
9781119222361
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (544 pages)
Series Statement:
Blackwell Companions to Anthropology Volume 32
Series Statement:
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology Ser
Parallel Title:
Print version Robben, Antonius C. G. M A Companion to the Anthropology of Death
DDC:
306.9
Keywords:
Funeral rites and ceremonies-Cross-cultural studies
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Death-Social aspects-Cross-cultural studies
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Death Social aspects
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Cross-cultural studies
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Funeral rites and ceremonies Cross-cultural studies
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Electronic books
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Tod
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Kulturanthropologie
Abstract:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- An Anthropology of Death for the Twenty-First Century -- Part I Mortuary Rituals -- Chapter 1 Governing the Dead in Guatemala: Public Authority and Dead Bodies -- Biopolitics, Necropolitics, and the Powers of the Dead -- The Concept of the Cemetery and the Birth of the Guatemalan State -- Dead Bodies in the Grid of the State: The 1870s -- War and Transgression: The 1980s -- Dead Bodies in the Aftermath of War -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 Evolving Mortuary Rituals in Contemporary Japan -- Traditional Mortuary Rituals and the Family -- Mortuary Rituals under Social Change -- Considering the Changes -- Constants Underlying Changes -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Revealing Brands, Concealing Labor -- Branding the Funereal -- The Dirty Work behind the Logo -- Corporatization -- Dirty Work -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 4 Playing with Corpses: Assembling Bodies for the Dead in Southwest China -- Souls and Bodies -- Ordering Relations -- Ordering Sacrifice and Exchange -- Goats and Loaves, Wholes and Halves -- Wrapping -- Conclusion: Bodies and "Society" -- References -- Chapter 5 Death and Separation in Postconflict Timor-Leste -- The Productivity of Separation -- The Perils of Separation and Nonseparation -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6 Migration, Death, and Conspicuous Redistribution in Southeastern Nigeria -- Kinship, Patron-Clientism, and Ambivalent Rural-Urban Relations -- Burials and Expectations of Conspicuous Redistribution -- Burials and Conspicuous Redistribution -- Conclusion -- Author's note -- Notes -- References -- Part II Emotions -- Chapter 7 After Death: Event, Narrative, Feeling -- On Being with the Living and the Dead -- "People Die Here - and We Respond by Cooking!"16
Abstract:
Remembering Tumbu and Mohedja -- Loss -- Conclusion -- Postscript -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8 Reflections on the Work of Recovery, I and II -- I The Work of Recovery: Wari' Territory, Western Brazil, 1956 -- II The Work of Recovery: World Trade Center, New York City, 2001 -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 9 The Pursuit of Sorrow and the Ethics of Crying -- A Technology of Emotion -- Remembering and Disremembering: The Temporality of Sorrow -- The Performance of Antisociality -- Cultures of Pain -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 10 Mourning as Mutuality -- Meaning and Being -- The Weight of Loss, the Lightness of Being -- Care in a "Society of Mass Death" -- Extending Mutuality of Care across Life and Death -- Mourning, Image, Imagination -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 11 A Comparative Study of Jewish Israeli and Buddhist Khmer Trauma Descendant Discontinued Bonds with the Genocide Dead -- Trauma Theory and the Pathologization of Bonds with the Genocide Dead -- Normalizing Continued Bonds with the Dead -- Jewish Israeli and Buddhist Cambodian Cultural Contexts -- Findings -- Discussion -- References -- Chapter 12 Facing Death: On Mourning, Empathy, and Finitude -- "His Face Didn't Look Right" -- Facing Death -- "We Tried to Make It" -- Growing Old Together -- A Transfer of Power -- On the Repetition of Singularity -- This Death, Not Any Other -- On Being Nearby -- Picturing Death -- "I Might Be Dead When You Return" -- "Never Again!" -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Part III Massive Death -- Chapter 13 What Is a Mass Grave? Toward an Anthropology of Human Remains Treatment in Contemporary Contexts of Mass Violence -- The Mass Production of Mass Graves -- A New Social Phenomenon: Mass Exhumations -- The Question of Burial -- Framing the Analysis of the Treatment of Human Remains -- Mass Graves and Burial -- Notes
Abstract:
References -- Chapter 14 Death on the Move: Pantheons and Reburials in Spanish Civil War Exhumations -- On Funerary Apartheid: Revisiting the Civil War Dead -- On Dignity: Designing Honorable Reburials -- Coda -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 15 Accountability for Mass Death, Acts of Rescue, and Silence in Rwanda -- The Moral Grey Zone -- Acts of Rescue -- Silence -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 16 Impassable Visions: The Cambodia to Come, the Detritus in its Wake -- The Garbage of War -- The Enemy Remnant -- The Rot from Within -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 17 Experience, Empathy, and Flexibility: On Participant Observation in Deadly Fields -- Making a Dangerous Decision -- Security through Close Relationships -- Magical Thinking -- Fragmented Thinking -- Death as Normal -- Distancing from Death and Destruction in the Field -- Aftermath: The Loneliness of a War Ethnographer -- "It … Needs To Be Said" -- Notes -- References -- Part IV Regeneration -- Chapter 18 Learning How to Die -- Poeisis in Living and Dying -- Ritual and Sensory Poiesis -- Continuations of Life -- Demise Writing -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 19 Whirlpools, Glitter, and Ferocious Intruders: The Palpability of Death in Chachi Animism -- The Extended Domain of Death -- Temporary Excursions into Death: Catastrophes and Rituals -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 20 Shamanic Rebirth and the Paradox of Disremembering the Dead among Mapuche in Chile -- The Transgressive Thunder Shaman -- Deaths and Rebirths -- Planned Death and Disremembering -- The Completion of Disremembering -- Mythologizing, Remembering, and Historicizing -- The Reburial of Francisca's Headdress and Ring -- Continuity and Transformation through Remembering and Disremembering -- Notes -- References
Abstract:
Chapter 21 After-Death Communications: Signs from the Other World in Contemporary North America -- The Conference -- Pilgrimage, Ritual, and Theology -- The Idyllic Afterlife -- How Dead People Talk to the Living -- Grief Work and the Work of Kinship -- Conclusion: Ancestors, Reciprocity, and Secularization -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 22 Cryonic Suspension as Eschatological Technology in the Secular Age -- Cryopreservation -- Suspensions -- Secular Eschatology -- Purgatory and the Chronically Incomplete Lifetime -- Conclusion: Remaking the Afterlife -- Notes -- References -- Part V Corporeal Materiality -- Chapter 23 From Here and to Death: The Archaeology of the Human Body -- Matter and Context: The Burial and Beyond -- The Archaeology of the Dead -- The Archaeology of Death -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 24 Death, Corporeality, and Uncertainty in Zimbabwe -- Changing Death and Human Corporeality in Africa and Beyond -- Zimbabwe's Politics of the Dead -- The Power of Uncertainty -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 25 Death, Power, and Silence: Native Nations' Ancestral Remains at the Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 26 In the Absence of a Corpse: Rituals for Body Donors in the Netherlands -- Methods -- Body Donation in the Netherlands -- Funerals without a Corpse -- Replacing the Missing Body: Celebrating Life -- Commemoration: Acknowledging Death -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 27 Death as Spectacle: Plastinated Bodies in Germany -- Plastinated Cadavers: A Realist Spectacle -- The "Living" Corpse: Spectacles of Authenticity -- Corpse Art: Spectacles of the Sublime -- Stripping the Corpse: Pornographic Spectacles -- Obliterating the Human Trace: Commodity Spectacles -- Normalizing Necrophilia: Urban Body Spectacles -- Memory Politics of Spectacle -- Acknowledgments
Abstract:
References -- Part VI Biomedical Issues -- Chapter 28 The Body as Medicine: Blood and Organ Donation in China -- Conceptions of the Body in Traditional Chinese Medicine -- Human Medicine in Biomedicine: Blood -- Human Medicine in Biomedicine: Solid Organs -- Results and Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 29 Ethical Dilemmas in the Field: Witchcraft and Biomedical Etiology in South Africa -- The Pre-Existence of Witchcraft -- Things Fall Apart -- Oedipus and AIDS -- On Referees and Players -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 30 The Disappearance of Dying, and Why It Matters -- Outside of Hospice and Palliative Care, Dying Persons Themselves May Not Be Safe -- Dying Itself Is Also Threatened -- Why Dying's Disappearance Matters -- What Can Be Done? -- Summary and Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 31 Death, Detachment, and Moral Dilemmas of Care in a Kenyan Hospital -- Ward Ten -- Death on the Ward -- "Often It Does Not Work Out": The Fragility of Care -- Practicing Medicine When You Cannot Practice Medicine -- Engagement and Detachment -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 32 The New Normal: Mediated Death and Assisted Dying in the United States -- Ordinary Death Disappears -- Mediated Death and Dying in the United States -- The New Normal: Consequences of a Discourse -- Physician-Assisted Dying: Reinvoking Ordinary Death -- Notes -- References -- Index -- EULA
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