Exchanges are fundamental to human societies. The authors show that the study of exchanges not only serves as a key to understanding particular societies as tot

Exchanges are fundamental to human societies. The authors show that the study of exchanges not only serves as a key to understanding particular societies as tot

The governance of the dead in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries gave rise to a new arrangement of thanato-politics in the West. Legal, medical and bureauc

How do the living maintain relations to the dead? Why do we bury people when they die? And what is at stake when we do? In The Dominion of the Dead, Robert Pogu

Whereas modern societies tend to banish the dead from the world of the living, medieval men and women accorded them a vital role in the community. The saints co