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
Inspired by the website that the New York Times hailed as "redefining mourning," this book is a fresh and irreverent examination into navigating grief and resil
The social and cultural changes of the last century have transformed death from an everyday fact to something hidden from view. Shifting between the practical a