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    Death Across Cultures Death and Dying in Non-Western Cultures /

    Published 2019
    Table of Contents: “…The Evolution of Funerary Ritual in Urbanizing China -- Belief in Karma and Mokṣa at the End of Life in India- Death and the Afterlife in Japan -- Return to Nature? Secularism and Politics of Death Space in Hong Kong -- Death and Dying: Belief, Fear and Ritual in Vietnamese Culture -- Negotiating Traditions and Modernity: Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore -- The Bureaucratic Professionalization of Funeral Rites in Tehran's Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery -- Death and Burial Practices in Contemporary Zulu Culture, South Africa -- Death in Botswana: Life Among the Ashes -- Ancestors and Death: From West Africa to Southwest Europe -- Living Coffins and Death Among the Ga of Ghana -- The Yoruba of Nigeria and the Ontology of Death and Burial -- Transformation of Funeral Rituals in Togo -- Rituals Around Life and Death in Mexico; The Day of the Dead -- Continuity and Ruptures in Brazilian Funeral Rites -- The Right to a Dignified Death in Argentina -- Superstar-Saints and Wandering Souls: The Cemetery as a Cultural Hotspot in Latin American Cities -- He taonga tuku iho: Indigenous End of Life and Death Care Customs of New Zealand Māori -- Communicating with the Dead in an Australian Aboriginal Culture: The Tiwi from Melville and Bathurst Islands -- Death and Dying in American Indian Cultures -- The Beauty of the Afterlife Among the Inuit of Nunavut -- Eternity Calling: Modernity and the Revival of Death and the Afterlife.…”
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