Death in the Early Twenty-first Century

1. Introduction.- 2. Fear and Prayers: Negotiating with the Dead in Apiao, Chiloe (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.

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• Antropologia social e cultural
• Grupos religiosos: aspectos sociais e culturais
• Sociologia

Death and societal relationships;mortuary rites;Death customs;History of death;Bereavement;funerals;death rites;memorialisation;mortuary practices;funeral experts;bereaved;dying;anthropology of death;mortality;grieving;grief;religion and society