Taming Time Timing Death

Presenting rich interdisciplinary empirical studies of death rituals and practices across the globe from the US and Europe Asia The Middle East Australasia and Africa Taming Time Timing Death explores the manner in which social technologies and rituals have been and are implemented to avoid delay or embrace death or communicate with the dead thus informing and manifesting humans' understanding of time. It will therefore be of interest to scholars and students of anthropology philosophy sociology and social theory human geography and religion.