Table of Contents
Acknowledgments viii
Death and Anthropology: An Introduction 1Antonius C. G. M. Robben
Part I Conceptualizations of Death 17
1 A Contribution to the Study of the Collective Representation of Death 19Robert Hertz
2 The Rites of Passage 34Arnold van Gennep
3 Symbolic Immortality 44Robert Jay Lifton and Eric Olson
4 Remembering as Cultural Process 52Elizabeth Hallam and Jenny Hockey
5 Massive Violent Death and Contested National Mourning in Post‐Authoritarian Chile and Argentina: A Sociocultural Application of the Dual Process Model 64Antonius C. G. M. Robben
Part II Death, Dying, and Care 77
6 Magic, Science and Religion 79Bronislaw Malinowski
7 Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande 83E. E. Evans‐Pritchard
8 Living Cadavers and the Calculation of Death 90Margaret Lock9 All Eyes on Egypt: Islam and the Medical Use of Dead Bodies amidst Cairo’s Political Unrest 102Sherine Hamdy
10 The Optimal Sacrifice: A Study of Voluntary Death among the Siberian Chukchi 115Rane Willerslev
11 Love’s Labor Paid for: Gift and Commodity at the Threshold of Death 129Ann Julienne Russ
Part III Grief and Mourning 149
12 The Andaman Islanders 151A. R. Radcliffe‐Brown
13 Grief and a Headhunter’s Rage 156Renato Rosaldo
14 Death Without Weeping 167Nancy Scheper‐Hughes
15 Three Days for Weeping: Dreams, Emotions, and Death in the Peruvian Amazon 181Glenn H. Shepard Jr.
16 The Expression of Grief in Monkeys, Apes, and Other Animals 202Barbara J. King
Part IV Mortuary Rituals and Epidemics 209
17 Hunting the Ancestors: Death and Alliance in Wari’ Cannibalism 211Beth A. Conklin
18 State Terror in the Netherworld: Disappearance and Reburial in Argentina 217Antonius C. G. M. Robben
19 Mourning Becomes Eclectic: Death of Communal Practice in a Greek Cemetery 231Diane O’Rourke
20 ‘We Are Tired of Mourning!’ The Economy of Death and Bereavement in a Time of AIDS 250Liv Haram
Part V Remembrance and Regeneration 263
21 Ancestors as Elders in Africa 265Igor Kopytoff
22 The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Mapuche Shaman: Remembering, Disremembering, and the Willful Transformation of Memory 276Ana Mariella Bacigalupo
23 The Ghosts of War and the Spirit of Cosmopolitanism 293Heonik Kwon
24 The Intimacy of Defeat: Exhumations in Contemporary Spain 306Francisco Ferrandiz
Index 319