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 …

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 …

Following from the influence of Freud's (1917/1957) grief work theory, the resolution of grief
has been the central issue for both theory and practice over the last 15 years. Of the other …

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 overall aim of the book is to provide a clearly written, wellinformed introduction to the
complex and demanding subject of grief to serve as a foundation for further study and …

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 …

The Nature of Grief is a provocative new study on the evolution of grief. Most literature on the
topic regards grief either as a psychiatric disorder or illness to be cured. In contrast to this …

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 …

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 …

An evolutionary approach to grief raises 2 issues: first, whether grief itself is adaptive, and if
not, how it arose through the process of natural selection; second, whether variations in grief …