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Steinert and Carvallo, “Religiosity at the Roadside”

Steinert, Isidora Urrutia and Eduardo Valenzuela Carvallo. 2019. “Religiosity at the Roadside: Memorials, Animitas, and Shrines on a Chilean Highway.” Journal of …

January 9, 2020 ndca-admin

Golomski, “Funeral Culture”

Golomski, Casey. 2018. Funeral Culture: AIDS, Work, and Cultural Change in an African Kingdom. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.  Publisher’s Description: Contemporary forms of …

November 14, 2018 ndca-admin

Boylston, “Death and the Semiotics of Remembrance”

Boylston, Tom. 2015. “And Unto Dust Thou Shalt Return”: Death and the Semiotics of Remembrance in an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian …

February 12, 2016 ndca-admin

Langford, “Medical Eschatologies: The Christian Spirit of Hospital Protocol”

Langford, Jean M. 2015. Medical Eschatologies: The Christian Spirit of Hospital Protocol. Medical Anthropology, DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2015.1091820 Abstract: If much has been written …

November 1, 2015 ndca-admin

Bernstein, “Freeze, Die, Come to Life”

Bernstein, Anya. 2015. Freeze, die, come to life: The many paths to immortality in post-Soviet Russia. American Ethnologist 42(4):766-781.  Abstract: Through practices such …

October 29, 2015 ndca-admin

Bandak, “Reckoning with the Inevitable”

Bandak, Andreas. 2015. Reckoning with the Inevitable: Death and Dying among Syrian Christians during the Uprising. Ethnos 80(5): 671-691. Abstract: Since …

August 19, 2015 ndca-admin

Nafte, “Institutional Bodies”

Nafte, Myriam. 2015. Institutional Bodies: Spatial Agency and the Dead. History & Anthropology 26(2): 206-233.  Abstract: In this paper, I argue that the …

May 19, 2015 ndca-admin

Kristensen, “How did Death become a Saint in Mexico?”

Kristensen,Regnar Albæk.  2014.  “How did Death become a Saint in Mexico?”  Ethnos (Early Online Publication).  Abstract: Over the last decade, …

September 15, 2014 ndca-admin

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