Sociology: Death & Dying

An in-depth look at how mortuary cultures and issues of death and the dead in Africa have developed over four centuriesIn My Time of Dying is the f...

'Poignant and often hilarious' Publishers WeeklyWhat if we responded to death... by throwing a party?By the time Erica Buists father-in-law Chris w...

A moving journey through the shadows of queer suicide and a tribute to lives marked by struggle and beauty The Lamentations explores the struggles ...

A moving journey through the shadows of queer suicide and a tribute to lives marked by struggle and beauty The Lamentations explores the struggles ...

From the author of Work Won't Love You Back, a stirring examination of how collective grief can ignite powerful change.Our era is one of significan...

Can we give Grandma a Viking funeral?Why don't animals dig up all the graves?Will my hair keep growing in my coffin after I'm buried?Every day, fun...

Built on original ethnographic research conducted by the author, this book offers a highly detailed and comprehensive account of funerary history a...

Tracing the narratives of five incarcerated individuals, Sentenced to COVID speaks to the devastating impact of surviving the pandemic inside priso...

Tracing the narratives of five incarcerated individuals, Sentenced to COVID speaks to the devastating impact of surviving the pandemic inside priso...

This book offers critical scenarios of dark tourism futures and examines how our significant dead will be remembered in future visitor economies. I...

The remarkable stories of beloved pets from the famous and unusual to the everyday memorialized at burial sites around the world, accompanied by ...

Offering a political epistemology of collective mourning Focusing on forms of improper burial in Turkey and Latin America, Ege Selin Islekel argues...

Offering a political epistemology of collective mourning Focusing on forms of improper burial in Turkey and Latin America, Ege Selin Islekel argues...

Graveyards, burial sites and cemeteries are as old as human civilization, resting places and memorial sites for loved ones, the great and sometimes...

'I thought if I was going to die I should write some things down'Kirsty Everett was going to be an Olympic gymnast. But as she made plans to win go...

This book offers critical scenarios of dark tourism futures and examines how our significant dead will be remembered in future visitor economies. I...