Sociology: Death & Dying

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...

In the long run, we're all dead. But for some of the most influential figures in history, death marked the start of a new adventure. The famous dec...

Mortuary Dialogues presents fresh perspectives on death and mourning across the Pacific Islands. Through a set of rich ethnographies, the book e...

Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. What would happen to an astronauts body if it was pushed out ...

Leesa Ross did not expect to write a book. Neither did she expect the tragedy that her family endured, a horrific and sudden death that led her to ...

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...