Built on original ethnographic research conducted by the author, this book offers a highly detailed and comprehensive account of funerary history and practices

"Built on original ethnographic research conducted by the author, this book offers a highly detailed and comprehensive account of funerary history and practices

The forms by which a deceased person may be brought to rest are as many as there are causes of death. In most societies the disposal of the corpse is accompanie

Jewish customs and traditions about death, burial and mourning are numerous, diverse and intriguing. They are considered by many to have a respectable pedigree

Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Cambodia, Erik W. Davis radically reorients approaches toward the nature of Southeast Asian Buddhism's interactio