Sociology: Death & Dying

Winner of the 2018 Media Ecology Association's Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction Winner of the ...

In early imperial China, the dead were remembered by stereotyping them, by relating them to the existing public memory and not by vaunting what mad...

Death in war matters. It matters to the individual, threatened with their own death, or the death of loved ones. It matters to groups and communi...

Go behind the scenes to discover why the Colosseum was the king of amphitheaters in the Roman world—a paragon of Roman engineering prowess.Early on...

Robert Desjarlais's graceful ethnography explores the life histories of two Yolmo elders, focusing on how particular sensory orientations and modal...

Samuel Heilman's eloquent account of the traditional customs that are put into practice when a Jewish person dies provides both an informative anth...

A fascinating exploration of the visual culture of mortality in Renaissance Europe We often imagine the Renaissance as an age of exceptional human ...

When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set i...

This fascinating work explores the meaning of death in the digital age, showing readers the new ways digital technology allows humans to approach, ...

A practical overview of clinical issues related to end-of-life care, including grief and bereavement The needs of individuals with life-limiting or...

Can you imagine swapping your body for a virtual version? This technology-based look at the afterlife chronicles America's fascination with death a...

Death came early and often to the people of Tokugawa Japan, as it did to the rest of the pre-modern world. Yet the Japanese reaction to death struc...

Practitioners who work with clients at the end of their lives face difficult decisions concerning the client's self-determination, the kind of deat...