Fieldwork encounters are not only contingent to biographical subjectivities, but are mediated
by a confluence of identity, place and embodiment. This paper offers reflexive accounts of …

This book on death rites and situational beliefs in the Netherlands offers valuable insight into
the ways in which the recently bereaved make sense of a death. It shows how people seek …

This article explores the critical ways in which the relationship between landscape and
memory is mediated by performance—through song, dance, ritual and the movements of the …

The Cardamom Mountain Jar and Coffin burial site of Phnom Khnang Peung is the most
extensive example of the distinctive burial ritual first reported by Beavan et al.(2012a). The …

In this paper we examine the traditional mortuary rites of the South Fore people of Papua
New Guinea using Robert Hertz's theory of secondary burial and the three mechanisms of …

his paper describes a well-preserved and burned human bone assemblage that represent at
least four individuals dating to ca. 2400–2600 years ago from Tongatapu Island in the …

This chapter reviews a major 'lineage'of anthropological theorising about funerals which
may offer ways of considering mourners' perspectives on and experiences of the event 11 …

This chapter focuses on the intricacies of Melanesian material culture in relation to local
notions of the connection between persons and things, and ideas of creation and destruction …

This article is intended as a comparative, yet speculative exercise. It seeks to consider how
Robert Hertz's 1907 analysis of the double burial in Dayak society might be used to integrate …

Passing is a matter of transformation, transition and transience. At the precarious and
indeterminate borderlands of being and non-being, people, places and things are in motion …