This introduction to the special issue on Anthropology and grief explores the contributions of
an ethnographic approach to the interdisciplinary study of grief. After a brief overview of …

Everything written and everything known about grief through study and personal experience
is saturated with cultural perspectives, concepts, and beliefs. No knowledge about grief is …

The article explores the state of the field in developing a cross-cultural model of grief.
Dialogues within several disciplines bear on the question, but those dialogues are very …

A social constructionist perspective on cultural differences in grieving raises challenging
questions about grief, culture, and social construction. This chapter offers a constructionist …

Do Funerals Matter? is a creative interweaving of historical, sociocultural, and research-
based perspectives on death rituals, drawing from myriad sources to create a picture of what …

In this chapter we argue that grief or mourning is not simply an interior or intrapsychic
process, although that is how it has been defined for most of the past century. Instead we …

This chapter discusses how culture affects the ways the bereaved handle grief, that is, how
coping styles and grief trajectories may be different in different cultural settings. As we are …

There are good reasons to argue that grief is, in a sense, innate-a natural and universal
reaction to the death of someone to whom one feels close. However, a study of patterns of …

Drawing largely on already published literature, this article examines the hypothesis,
derived from Frank, that the current proliferation of first-person accounts of grief represents …

The ways in which eastern and western cultures grieve for their dead are often contrasted.
Eastern cultures are seen to place greater value on traditional ritual and ceremony that, it is …