Death in the Early Twenty-first Century

1. Introduction
Sébastien Penmellen Boret, Susan Orpett Long, Sergei Kan

Part I. Culture, Religion, and the Uses of Tradition

2. Fear and Prayers: Negotiating with the Dead in Apiao, Chiloé (Chile)
Giovanna Bacchiddu

3. Quelling the “Unquiet Dead”: Popular Devotions in the Borderlands of the USSR
Catherine Wanner

4. Life After Death/Life Before Death and Their Linkages: The United States, Japan, and China
Gordon Mathews, Miu Ying Kwong

Part II. Personhood, Memory, and Technology

5. Reincarnation, Christianity and Controversial Coffins in Northwestern Benin
Sharon Merz

6. For the Solace of the Young and the Authority of the Old Death: Photography in Acholi, Northern Uganda
Sophie H. Seebach

7. Mediating Mortality: Transtemporal Illness Blogs and Digital Care Work
Tamara Kneese

Part III. Individual, Choice, and Identity

8. Agency and the Personalization of the Grave in Japan
Sébastien Penmellen Boret

9. Remembering the Dead: Agency, Authority, and Mortuary Practices in Interreligious Families in the United States
Susan Orpett Long, Sonja Salome Buehring

Avainsanat: Social Sciences, Social Anthropology, Religion and Society