What to do with the dead? In Imperial Japan, as elsewhere in the modernizing world, answering this perennial question meant relying on age-old solutions. Funera

A contemporary exploration of death and dying by a young Duke Fellow who investigates the hows, whys, wheres, and whens of modern death and their cultural signi

Death comes to all humans, but how death is managed, symbolised and experienced varies widely, not only between individuals but also between groups. What then s

"An autobiographicl novel tracing a young man's passage through a sequence of distrubing events to a hard-won truce with himself."--Page 4 of cover.

This study explores the female experience of death in early modern England. By tracing attitudes towards gender through the occasion of death, it advances our u