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  • Necropolitics of the Ordinary

    Death and Grieving in Contemporary Singapore

    by Ruth E. Toulson ...
    Can a state make its people forget the dead?Cemeteries have become sites of acute political contestation in the city-state of Singapore. Confronted with high population density and rapid economic growth, the government has ordered the destruction of all but one burial ground, forcing people to exhume their family members. In this ethnography of Chinese funeral parlors and cemeteries, ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Death

    Edited by Sarah L. Richardson, Sarah E. Wagner, Ruth E. Toulson ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Anthropology
    Shaped by important shifts in the field and a global pandemic, this Handbook provides a fresh look at the anthropology of death. It is split into five parts, with chapters examining how deathcare happens and the kinds of relationships that arise between the living, the dying, and the dead; how rituals change and also endure; and how societies make sense of and live with death – both everyday and ... Read more

    $131.19 USD

  • The Materiality of Mourning

    Cross-disciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Zahra Newby, Ruth Toulson ...
    Tangible remains play an important role in our relationships with the dead; they are pivotal to how we remember, mourn and grieve. The chapters in this volume analyse a diverse range of objects and their role in the processes of grief and mourning, with contributions by scholars in anthropology, history, fashion, thanatology, religious studies, archaeology, classics, sociology, and political ... Read more

    $61.99 USD