Death in the Early Twenty-first Century

Sébastien Penmellen Boret is an anthropologist at the International Research Institute of Disaster Sciences of Tohoku University, Japan. Susan Orpett Long is Professor of Anthropology at John Carroll University, USA.  Sergei Kan is Professor of Anthropology and Native American Studies at Dartmouth College, USA.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Fear and Prayers: Negotiating with the Dead in Apiao, Chiloé (Chile).- 3. Quelling the “Unquiet Dead”:  Popular Devotions in the Borderlands of the USSR.- 4. Life After Death/Life Before Death and Their Linkages: The United States, Japan, China.- 5. Reincarnation, Christianity and Controversial Coffins in Northwestern Benin.- 6. For the Solace of the Young and the Authority of the Old: Death Photography in Acholi, Northern Uganda.- 7. Mediating Mortality: Transtemporal Illness Blogs and Digital Care Work.- 8. Agency and the Personalization of the Grave in Japan.- 9. Remembering the Dead: Agency, Authority, and Mortuary Practices in Interreligious Families in the United States.

“This book is an analysis of how this generation views death and the remembering of those who have left this earth through death. … This was a very interesting book with different perspectives on death.” (Justin Dilliplane, Resolved for Christ, resolvedfc.blogspot.de, January, 2018)