Description: - How do the living maintain ongoing relationships with the dead in Western societies? - How have the residual belongings of the dead been used to evoke memories? - Why has the body and its material environment remained so important in memory-making? Obj
Brief description:
Elizabeth Hallam is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Department of Anthropology at University of Aberdeen.
Review Quotes:
"Offering insights into the one certainty of human life, this exploration of practices related to death holds a fascination that proved irresistible." --Anthropology in Action
"It is a book that was waiting to be written." --Bereavement Care