Death in the early twenty-first century : authority, innovation, and mortuary rites

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"Focusing on tradition, technology, and authority, this volume challenges classical understandings that mortuary rites are inherently conservative. The contributors examine innovative and enduring ideas and practices of death, which reflect and constitute changing patterns of social relationships, memorialisation, and the afterlife. This cross-cultural study examines the lived experiences of men and women from societies across the globe with diverse religious heritages and secular value systems. The book demonstrates that mortuary practices are not fixed forms, but rather dynamic processes negotiated by the dying, the bereaved, funeral experts, and public institutions. In addition to offering a new theoretical perspective on the anthropology of death, this work provides a rich resource for readers interested in human responses to mortality: the one certainty of human existence."--Nakladatelská anotace … full description

Bibliographic Details

Other Authors

Sébastien Penmellen Boret, Susan Orpett Long, Sergei Kan, SpringerLink (online služba)

Document Type

Books

Physical Description

1 online zdroj (xi, 295 stran) : barevné ilustrace

Published

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]

Subjects

společenské vědy > ve

sociologie náboženství > na

etnologie > an

rituály > an

smrt > zd

umírání

pohřby

pozůstalí

pohřební obřady

elektronické knihy

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ISBN

978-3-319-52365-1

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Fear and Prayers: Negotiating with the Dead in Apiao, Chiloé (Chile) -- 3. Quelling the “Unquiet Dead”: Popular Devotions in the Borderlands of the USSR -- 4. Life After Death/Life Before Death and Their Linkages: The United States, Japan, China -- 5. Reincarnation, Christianity and Controversial Coffins in Northwestern Benin -- 6. For the Solace of the Young and the Authority of the Old: Death Photography in Acholi, Northern Uganda -- 7. Mediating Mortality: Transtemporal Illness Blogs and Digital Care Work -- 8. Agency and the Personalization of the Grave in Japan -- 9. Remembering the Dead: Agency, Authority, and Mortuary Practices in Interreligious Families in the United States