Death, Mourning, and Burial (eBook)

A Cross-Cultural Reader

Antonius C. G. M. Robben (Herausgeber)

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2017 | 2. Auflage
368 Seiten
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-119-15175-3 (ISBN)

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The definitive reference on the anthropology of death and dying, expanded with new contributions covering everything from animal mourning to mortuary cannibalism

Few subjects stir the imagination more than the study of how people across cultures deal with death and dying. This expanded second edition of the internationally bestselling Death, Mourning, and Burial offers cross-cultural readings that span the period from dying to afterlife, considering approaches to this transition as a social process and exploring the great variations of cultural responses to death.  Exploring new content including organ transplantation, institutionalized care for the dying, HIV-AIDs, animal mourning, and biotechnology, this text retains classic readings from the first edition, and is enhanced by sixteen new articles and two new sections which provide increased breadth and depth for readers.

Death, Mourning, and Burial, Second Edition is divided into eight parts reflecting the social trajectory of death: conceptualizations of death; death, dying, and care; grief and mourning; mortuary rituals; and remembrance and regeneration. Sections are introduced through foundational texts which provide the ideal introduction to this diverse field.  It is essential reading for anyone concerned with issues of death and dying, as well as violence, terrorism, war, state terror, organ theft, and mortuary rituals.

• A thoroughly revised edition of this classic anthology featuring twenty-three new articles, two new sections, and three reformulated sections
• Updated to include current topics, including organ transplantation, institutionalized care for the dying, HIV-AIDs, animal mourning, and biotechnology
• Must reading for anyone concerned with issues of death and dying, as well as violence, terrorism, war, state terror, organ theft, and mortuary rituals
• Serves as a text for anthropology classes and provides a genuinely cross-cultural perspective to all those studying death and dying

ANTONIUS C.G.M. ROBBEN, PhD, is Professor of Anthropology at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and past President of the Netherlands Society of Anthropology. His authored books include Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina (2005), which won the 2006 Textor Prize from the American Anthropological Association, and his edited work includes Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader, Second Edition (Wiley Blackwell, 2012) and the forthcoming A Companion to the Anthropology of Death (Wiley Blackwell, 2018).

Inhalt

Title Page 5
Copyright Page 6
Contents 7
Acknowledgments 10
Death and Anthropology: An Introduction 13
Part I Conceptualizations of Death 29
Chapter 1 A Contribution to the Study of the Collective Representation of Death 31
1. The Intermediary Period 32
2. The Final Ceremony 37
3. Conclusion 41
Chapter 2 The Rites of Passage 46
Funerals 46
Notes 53
Chapter 3 Symbolic Immortality 56
Chapter 4 Remembering as Cultural Process 64
Memory Making 65
Materialities and Social Practices 66
Memory Materials in Cultural and Historical Perspectives 67
Bodies in Time/Materials in Memory 70
Material Memories: Contemporary Concerns 73
Bibliography 75
Chapter 5 Massive Violent Death and Contested National Mourning in Post-Authoritarian Chile and Argentina: A Sociocultural Application of the Dual Process Model 76
National Mourning after Massive Violent Death 77
Retribution and Remembrance in Argentina 79
Reparation and the Pursuit of Reconciliation in Chile 82
Conclusion 84
References 85
Part II Death, Dying, and Care 89
Chapter 6 Magic, Science and Religion 91
Death and the Reintegration of the Group 91
Chapter 7 Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande 95
Chapter 8 Living Cadavers and the Calculation of Death 102
Preamble 102
Inventing a New Death 104
When Bodies Outlive Persons 105
Doubts among the Certainty 106
The Brain Death ‘Problem’ 108
Public Commentary on Brain Death 110
Summary 111
Notes 112
References 112
Chapter 9 All Eyes on Egypt: Islam and the Medical Use of Dead Bodies amidst Cairo’s Political Unrest 114
‘Right’ and ‘Wrong’ Ideas about Eye Donation 116
Medicine’s Cadavers 117
Can the Dead Feel the Knife? 118
A New Way Forward: The 2011–12 Cornea Donation Campaign 121
Conclusions 123
Notes 124
References 125
Chapter 10 The Optimal Sacrifice: A Study of Voluntary Death among the Siberian Chukchi 127
Problems with the study of voluntary death 129
The ownership and possession of souls 130
The soul as helper of and traitor to its possessor 132
Suicide – “a woman’s death” 132
Sacrifice as substitution 133
Voluntary death as sacrifice 135
Notes 137
References cited 138
Chapter 11 Love’s Labor Paid for: Gift and Commodity at the Threshold of Death 141
Reconciling Life and Death: The Spirit of Care 143
Gift and Commodity: A Phenomenology of Exchange 145
The Limits of Caring: Living the Contradictions of Intimate Exchange 147
Negotiating the Unnegotiable: Commodification and Regeneration 151
The Abundance of Loss: Problems of Terminality and Retention 153
Death Given and Received 155
Notes 156
References Cited 158
Part III Grief and Mourning 161
Chapter 12 The Andaman Islanders 163
Notes 166
Reference 167
Chapter 13 Grief and a Headhunter’s Rage 168
The Rage in Ilongot Grief 169
How I Found the Rage in Grief 170
Death in Anthropology 173
Grief, Rage, and Ilongot Headhunting 174
Summary 176
Notes 177
Chapter 14 Death Without Weeping 179
Mortal Ills, Fated Deaths 179
Angel-Babies: The Velório de Anjinhos 181
Grief Work: A Political Economy of the Emotions 186
Death Without Weeping 188
Note 191
References 191
Chapter 15 Three Days for Weeping: Dreams, Emotions, and Death in the Peruvian Amazon 193
Matsigenka: “The People” 194
A Message from Afar 195
Emotion and Grief: Cross-Cultural Perspectives 196
Sex, Death, and Demons 197
Three Days for Weeping 199
Defensive Mourning 202
Emotional Pathology 204
Farewells, Cheerful Pessimism, and the Matsigenka Ethos 207
Conclusion 208
Epilogue 209
Postscript 210
Notes 210
References Cited 211
Chapter 16 The Expression of Grief in Monkeys, Apes, and Other Animals 214
Defining grief 215
What isn’t grief? 216
Grief and great ape welfare 217
Beyond speciesism 218
The future of grief research 219
References 219
Part IV Mortuary Rituals and Epidemics 221
Chapter 17 Hunting the Ancestors: Death and Alliance in Wari’ Cannibalism 223
“Pigs” from the Ancestors 223
Cannibalism and Images of the Afterlife 224
Ecology and Eschatology 224
Death and Alliance 225
Cannibalism and Human/Animal Reciprocity 226
Consuming Grief: Cannibalism and Mourning 226
Notes 227
References 228
Chapter 18 State Terror in the Netherworld: Disappearance and Reburial in Argentina 229
Disappearance as Terror 231
Reburial at Recoleta National Cemetery 233
Repatriation and Reburial in the Twentieth Century 235
Contested Exhumations and Revolutionary Protest 237
Reburial and Reconciliation 239
Notes 240
Chapter 19 Mourning Becomes Eclectic: Death of Communal Practice in a Greek Cemetery 243
Disinterment and deposition of bones 246
The shape of mourning 249
Representing community 250
Representing family ties 252
Mourning, grief, and identity 254
Belief, practice, and meaning 257
Final words 258
Notes 259
References cited 260
Chapter 20 ‘We Are Tired of Mourning!’ The Economy of Death and Bereavement in a Time of AIDS 262
The Meru and the Lutheran Church 264
Funeral Practices and Mourning 265
Negotiating Time and Money 267
Conclusion: Negotiating Death and the Regeneration of Life 270
Notes 271
Bibliography 272
Part V Remembrance and Regeneration 275
Chapter 21 Ancestors as Elders in Africa 277
Notes 285
Bibliography 286
Chapter 22 The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Mapuche Shaman: Remembering, Disremembering, and the Willful Transformation of Memory 288
Kinship, Personhood, and the Individuality of Spirits 291
Rosa: The German?Mapuche Lightning Shaman Who Saved the World 293
Francisca Colipi: The Mestiza Lightning Shaman in the Time of Conflict 295
Planned Death and Ritual Finishing 297
Remembering Francisca 299
Conclusion 300
Notes 301
References Cited 303
Chapter 23 The Ghosts of War and the Spirit of Cosmopolitanism 305
Ancestors and Ghosts 306
Political Ghosts 308
The Diversity of Ghosts 310
The Spirit of Cosmopolitanism 312
Notes 315
Chapter 24 The Intimacy of Defeat: Exhumations in Contemporary Spain 318
A Massacre at Valdediós 318
The Reemergence of Traumatic Memories 320
The Intimacy of Defeat 321
Commemorating the Victims 324
Notes 327
Works Cited 329
Index 331
EULA 364

Rezensionen

"Robben has produced an outstanding collection of classic and contemporary essays on death and mourning. The carefully balanced selection and lucid introduction make this a superb teaching text." Michael Lambek, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada

"This impressive combination of classic and very recent studies of how humans respond to death demonstrates anthropology's vibrant contribution to this field." Tony Walter, University of Bath, UK

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.4.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: animal mourning • anthropological studies of death and dying • Anthropologie • Anthropologie der Religion • Anthropology • anthropology of death and dying • anthropology of grief and mourning • Anthropology of Religion • attitudes toward death and dying • books about death • burial customs around the world • comparative burial customs • conceptualizations of death • cross-cultural attitudes on biotechnology and death • cross-cultural perceptions of corpses • cross-cultural survey of death and dying</p> • cultural attitudes toward death and dying • death and dying cross-cultural perspectives • death and dying research • death as a social phenomenon • death, dying, and cannibalism • death, dying, and care • ethnographic studies of mortuary rituals • ethnology of death and dying • <p>death • mourning customs around the world • mourning rituals • Social & Cultural Anthropology • Sociology • Sociology of Health & Illness • Soziale u. kulturelle Anthropologie • Soziologie • Soziologie d. Gesundheit u. Krankheit
• ISBN-10: 1-119-15175-9 / 1119151759
• ISBN-13: 978-1-119-15175-3 / 9781119151753