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Drawing on ethnography of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
communities across Australia, Mortality, Mourning and Mortuary
Practices in Indigenous Australia focuses on the current ways in
which indigenous people confront and manage various aspects of
death. The contributors employ their contemporary and long-term
anthropological fieldwork with indigenous Australians to construct
rich accounts of indigenous practices and beliefs and to engage
with questions relating to the frequent experience of death within
the context of unprecedented change and premature mortality. The
volume makes use of extensive empirical material to address
questions of inequality with specific reference to mortality, thus
contributing to the anthropology of indigenous Australia whilst
attending to its theoretical, methodological and political
concerns. As such, it will appeal not only to anthropologists but
also to those interested in social inequality, the social and
psychosocial consequences of death, and the conceptualization and
manipulation of the relationships between the living and the dead.
Drawing on ethnography of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
communities across Australia, Mortality, Mourning and Mortuary
Practices in Indigenous Australia focuses on the current ways in
which indigenous people confront and manage various aspects of
death. The contributors employ their contemporary and long-term
anthropological fieldwork with indigenous Australians to construct
rich accounts of indigenous practices and beliefs and to engage
with questions relating to the frequent experience of death within
the context of unprecedented change and premature mortality. The
volume makes use of extensive empirical material to address
questions of inequality with specific reference to mortality, thus
contributing to the anthropology of indigenous Australia whilst
attending to its theoretical, methodological and political
concerns. As such, it will appeal not only to anthropologists but
also to those interested in social inequality, the social and
psychosocial consequences of death, and the conceptualization and
manipulation of the relationships between the living and the dead.
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