Sociology: death and dying

Based on 15 months of ethnographic research in the city of Alto Hospicio in northern Chile, this book describes how the residents use social media, and the consequences of this use in their daily lives.

It is hardly necessary to explain the purpose of this work.

';All about looking: at a landscape, at language, at a sign.

Forensic science provides information and data behind the circumstances of a particular death, but it is culture that provides death with meaning.

Rand was initially puzzled as to why young spirits wanted to speak through her—she had no children of her own and the responsibility of talking with people who had lost theirs seemed too great to bear.

Benevolent Orders, the Sons of Ham, Prince Hall Freemasonsthese and other African American lodges created a social safety net for members across Tennessee.

What if we responded to death.

Christine Hartmann's mother valued control above all else, yet one event appeared beyond her command: the timing of her own death.

This story is about one narcissistic young man who was interested in self-gratification regardless of who got hurt or even killed in the process.

Nancy Lee Walker falls in love with an old childhood friend only to discover that her sexual appetite soon leads her in a world of trouble that she never dreamed that she could or would ever think of being in.

Kennedy shares her own story of facing the loss of a parent and offers innovative strategies for healing and transformation.

Going beyond the frameworks of the anthropology of death, Articulate Necrographies offers a dramatic new way of studying the dead and their interactions with the living.

A New York Times-bestselling behind-the-scenes look at the US Army unit stationed at Arlington National Cemetery.

Forensic science provides information and data behind the circumstances of a particular death, but it is culture that provides death with meaning.

What should medicine do when it cant save your life?

Benevolent Orders, the Sons of Ham, Prince Hall Freemasonsthese and other African American lodges created a social safety net for members across Tennessee.

Christine Hartmanns mother valued control above all else, yet one event appeared beyond her command: the timing of her own death.

"e;I am learning the alchemy of grief-how it must be carefully measured and doled out, inflicted-but I have not yet mastered this art,"e; writes Judith Ortiz Cofer in The Cruel Country.

In this book, Janet Todd, one of the leading authorities on seventeenth- and eighteenth century women writers, discusses gender issues from the Restoration to Romanticism investigating women authors and the fascination with culturally privileged art and with heroic death.

Zygmunt Bauman's new book is a brilliant exploration, from a sociological point of view, of the 'taboo' subject in modern societies: death and dying.

Djekhy & Son, two businessmen living 2500 years ago in the densely populated neighborhoods built around the great temple of Amun at Karnak, worked as funerary service providers in the necropolis on the western bank of the Nile.

Angela is obsessed with death.

What drives a person to take his or her own life?

Back CoverInspired by true eventsHow many times have you been driving along and suddenly see a makeshift cross, a fence post or a milepost with flowers hanging on it, a sign that some poor soul had found their way there, only to find the ever after?