The work is an anthropological analysis of death and the dead, which attempts a significant reworking of the idea of death that is prevalent in Hinduism.
The work is an anthropological analysis of death and the dead, which attempts a significant reworking of the idea of death that is prevalent in Hinduism.
The author teaches Sociology at Hindu College, University of Delhi. He has also briefly taught at the department of sociology, Delhi School of Economics. His long-standing research interests centre around the anthropology of death, cremation as a contemporary global practice as well as grief and kinship. Apart from ethnographic research on funeral travelling in contemporary Banaras, the author has also studied cremation as a shifting ethical practice in twenty-first century Europe across two different locations, Denmark, and more recently, northern Italy.
Inhaltsangabe
1: Following the Dead: Corpse as Multiple Social Condition 2: The City Multiple: Place-Names Play Dead 3: Good, Bad Death: Family Necrology and Hospital Sojourn 4: Crying and Listening: Forms of Mourning and Community 5: Conversation of Pyres: Seen and Unseen Passages of Crematorial Aesthetics and Ethics
1: Following the Dead: Corpse as Multiple Social Condition 2: The City Multiple: Place-Names Play Dead 3: Good, Bad Death: Family Necrology and Hospital Sojourn 4: Crying and Listening: Forms of Mourning and Community 5: Conversation of Pyres: Seen and Unseen Passages of Crematorial Aesthetics and Ethics
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