Sociology: Death & Dying

In the 1890s, Amos Lunt served as the San Quentin hangman, tying the nooses that brought the most dangerous criminals in the Wild West to their ...

Changes in funeral practice provide a lens through which to inspect changes in wider social identity, values and religious beliefs. This book revea...

Pyramus: Now die, die, die, die, die.[Dies] A Midsummer Nights Dream 'Shakespeares Dead' reveals the unique ways in which Shakespeare brings dy...

The Living and the Dead examines the boundaries between the worlds of life and death. The text draws upon philosophy, ethnography, literature and ...

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...

Rachael Hanels name was inscribed on a gravestone when she was eleven years old. Yet this wasnt at all unusual in her world: her father was a grave...