Overview
- Expands the literature on contested, mundane, and comparative perspectives of human responses to death
- Reflects the shifting interests of contemporary anthropologists in the contested nature of dying and death
- Includes dynamic interdisciplinary contributions
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Culture, Religion, and the Uses of Tradition
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Personhood, Memory, and Technology
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Individual, Choice, and Identity
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Susan Orpett Long is Professor of Anthropology at John Carroll University, USA.
Sergei Kan is Professor of Anthropology and Native American Studies at Dartmouth College, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Death in the Early Twenty-first Century
Book Subtitle: Authority, Innovation, and Mortuary Rites
Editors: Sébastien Penmellen Boret, Susan Orpett Long, Sergei Kan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52365-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-52364-4Published: 28 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84886-0Published: 09 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-52365-1Published: 18 July 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 295
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Anthropology, Religion and Society