This book explores the interrelations between work and social life. It emphasizes how workers' expressive forms and public performances connect with processes of social ...

"Many ethnographic monographs are praise-worthy on conceptual and methodological grounds; some combine solid contributions to knowledge with trenchant social-policy ...

A gifted photographer, Ernest Knee came to Santa Fe in 1931, setting up a studio and befriending artists and photographers such as including Ansel Adams, Georgia O'Keeffe, and ...

This book unravels the many different experiences, meanings and realities of natural burial. Twenty years after the first natural burial ground opened there is an opportunity ...

This collection opens up spaces where lives end, bodies are disposed of and memories generated: hospitals, hospices, care homes, coroners' courts, funeral premises, cemeteries ...

Death is at once a universal and everyday, but also an extraordinary experience in the lives of those affected. Death and bereavement are thereby intensified at (and frequently ...

Seventy per cent of British families now choose cremation for their funerals, a rapid change in traditional death customs. This is the first book to investigate why cremation ...