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An account of the men of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries who were called "resurrectionists," the legal and social conditions that made grave robbing a necessity ...

Never look at a grave the same way again Admit it: You're fascinated by cemeteries. We all die, and for most of us, a cemetery is our final resting place. But how many people ...

This book provides a comprehensive account of attitudes towards the dead and their 'placing'.

Constructing Death reviews sociological, anthropological and historical studies of death, grief and mourning in order to illuminate present-day experience. It is both an ...

A study of Hindu death rituals and the sacred specialists who perform them in the Indian city of Banaras.

This book, first published in 1999, explores the experience of private loss and grief after the two world wars.

This innovative study of the patriarchy belies the accepted notion of the father figure as tyrannical and exploitative.