Honorable Mention, PROSE Award A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year A
Junto Favorite Book of the Year Beginning with metaphysical debates in the sixteenth …

Based on years of fieldwork in both rural and urban Greece, The Last Word explores
women's cultural resistance as they weave together diverse social practices: improvised …

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

Death comes to all humans, but how death is managed, symbolized and experienced varies
widely, not only between individuals but also between groups. What then shapes how a …

Following World War II, the Catholic Church in Europe faced the challenge of establishing
political influence with newly emerging democratic governments. The Church became, as …

Is religion to blame for deadly conflicts? Should religious behaviour be credited more often
for acts of charity and altruism? In what ways are religious and 'spiritual'ideas, practices and …

Burial sites have long been recognized as a way to understand past civilizations. Yet, the
meanings of our present day cemeteries have been virtually ignored, even though they …

Why do funeral practices vary between modern Western countries? In the mid-nineteenth
century, managing the rapidly expanding number of corpses had to be controlled and …

A Sociology of World Religions presents a comparative analysis of the world's religions,
focusing on the differences and interrelationships between religious elites and lay masses …

Drawing on an ethnographic study of a remote farming community in the Auvergne, Dr Reed-
Danahay challenges conventional views about the operation of the French school system …