Sociology: Death & Dying

Winner of the 2020 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic WritingNearly 1,600 Americans are still unaccounted for and presumed dead from the Vietnam W...

Where did the ideas of heaven and hell come from? As strange as it may seem to us now, there was a time when no one thought they would go to heave...

Food is at the center of national debates about how Americans live and the future of the planet. Not everyone agrees about how to reform our relati...

Fear of accidents or acts of terror, illness or dying, loneliness or grief if youre like most people such anxieties may be robbing you of the peac...

Takes the recent wave of German autobiographical writing on illness and disability seriously as literature, demonstrating the value of a literary d...

Someone dies. What happens next?One family inters their matriarchs ashes on the floor of the ocean. Another holds a memorial weenie roast each year...

Recent years have witnessed growing scholarly interest in the history of death. Increasing academic attention toward death as a historical subje...

Throughout history, the nature and mystery of death has captivated artists, scientists, philosophers, physicians, and theologians. This eerie chron...

The issue of death has loomed large in Chinese cities in the modern era. Throughout the Republican period, Shanghai swallowed up lives by the thous...

Studies representations of women and death by women to see whether and how they differ from patriarchal versions. In Western culture, women are of...

Death has been deemed the great equalizer, but each journey towards our shared, ultimate fate is unique. The length of our lives, the quality of ...

'A refreshingly original meditation... I wish I had written it myself' Literary ReviewGraveyards are oases: places of escape, peace and reflection....