Cross-cultural perspectives

Accessible but based on current scholarship

Deals with the period before death and not just with death and funerals

The Evolution of Funerary Ritual in Urbanizing China.- Belief in Karma and Mok¿a at the End of Life in India- Death and the Afterlife in Japan.- Return to Nature? Secularism and Politics of Death Space in Hong Kong.- Death and Dying: Belief, Fear and Ritual in Vietnamese Culture.- Negotiating Traditions and Modernity: Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore.- The Bureaucratic Professionalization of Funeral Rites in Tehran's Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery.- Death and Burial Practices in Contemporary Zulu Culture, South Africa.- Death in Botswana: Life Among the Ashes.- Ancestors and Death: From West Africa to Southwest Europe.- Living Coffins and Death Among the Ga of Ghana.- The Yoruba of Nigeria and the Ontology of Death and Burial.- Transformation of Funeral Rituals in Togo.- Rituals Around Life and Death in Mexico; The Day of the Dead.- Continuity and Ruptures in Brazilian Funeral Rites.- The Right to a Dignified Death in Argentina.- Superstar-Saints and Wandering Souls: The Cemetery as a Cultural Hotspot in Latin American Cities.- He taonga tuku iho: Indigenous End of Life and Death Care Customs of New Zealand M¿ori.- Communicating with the Dead in an Australian Aboriginal Culture: The Tiwi from Melville and Bathurst Islands.- Death and Dying in American Indian Cultures.- The Beauty of the Afterlife Among the Inuit of Nunavut.- Eternity Calling: Modernity and the Revival of Death and the Afterlife.