Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One -- 1. Che: The Sociality of Exchange -- 2. Küpal: The Sociality of Descent -- 3. Ngillanwen: The Sociality of Affinity -- 4. Eluwün: The End of So…
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by Torri, Davide, Robben, Antonius C.G.M, Vitebsky, Piers, Course, Magnus, Santo, Diana Espírito, Espirito Santo, Diana, Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios, Walter, Tony, Banaggia, Gabriel, Conklin, Beth, Marouda, Marina, Romberg, Raquel, Straight, Bilinda
Going beyond the frameworks of the anthropology of death, Articulate Necrographies offers a dramatic new way of studying the dead and their interactions with the living. Traditional anthropology has tended to dichotomize societies where death "speaks" from those where death is "…