Dr Christina Welch is a Reader in Religious Studies at the University of Winchester.Dr Jasmine Hazel Shadrack is a composer, musician, researcher, and senior lecturer with over twenty years’ experience. She is currently a visiting lecturer at Falmouth University, the University of Missouri, and BIMM Berlin. She achieved her PhD in Performance Autoethnography, Psychoanalysis and Musicology from the University of Northampton, UK.

• Table of ContentsPrelimsList of Figures x-xiAcknowledgements xiiSeries Foreword xiii-xvi, Graham HarveyIntroductionDeath and the Senses 1-12,Christina Welch, Jasmine Hazel ShadrackPart I: Physical Senses – Death and the Sense of Movement1. Kinetic Death: O Bon – Hawai’i’s Japanese Dance for the Dead 15-26, Candi Cann2. Egungun – Moving the Masks of our Ancestors 27-36, Olu TaiwoPart I: Physical Senses – Death and the Sense of Sight3. Death in Sight: Confronting Mortality in Contemporary Art 37-51, Celia Grace Kenny4. Images of Death and their Metamorphosis: From The Grim Reaper to Santa Muerte 52-66, Kate KingsburyPart I: Physical Senses – Death and the Sense of Smell5. Smelling Death: An Olfactory Account of Popular English Funeral Customs, c.1850-1920 67-79, Helen Frisby6. The Sense of Smell and the Odour of Death 80-95, Wendy BirchPart I: Physical Senses – Death and the Sense of Sound7. ‘Sounding out Death’: Academic and Professional Viewpoints 96-113 Suzi Garrod, Christina Welch8. Sounding her Death Ballads: Funeral Songs as my Mother’s Final Words 114-126, Jasmine Hazel ShadrackPart I: Physical Senses – Death and the Sense of Taste9. Food for the Dead, Food for the Living 127-139, Beverly Rogers10. Tasting the Dead 140-154, Christina WelchPart I: Physical Senses – Death and the Sense of Touch11. Crafting as a Continuing Bond: Linking Handicrafts and Lost Loved Ones 155-166, Enya Healey-Rawlings12. The Sense of Touch in Relation to Working with Archaeological Human Skeletal Remains 167-182, Heidi Dawson-HobbisPart II: Cultural Senses – Death and the Sense of Decency13. Displaying the Dead with Decency: Practices at Funeral Homes and at Body Worlds 185-202, Lucy Jacklin, Christina Welch14. Body Disposal, Decency and Dark Tourism: A Case Study Approach 203-219, Alasdair Richardson, Christina WelchPart II: Cultural Senses – Death and the Sense of Humour15. Satire in the Time of a Pandemic: An Interview with Cold War Steve 220-235, Laura Hubner16. ‘It’s not Funny, is it?’: Humour as a Coping Strategy Against Death by Funeral Workers in the UK 236-248, Angie McLachlanPart II: Cultural Senses – Death and the Sense of Loss17. When Glaciers Die: Mourning and Memorialisation in Ecological Devastation 249-262, Jonatan Spejlborg Juelsbo18. Grave Goods as Continuing Bonds 263-274, Kym SwanAfterwordAfterword 275-280, Graham HarveyEnd MatterIndex 281-288

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