Anthropology of Death

The course examines cultural and social phenomena related to dying, death, funeral, mourning / bereavement and the dead. Covered are the subjects: dying and death as a social phenomenon; the cultural history of death; attitudes towards dying and death throughout history; death and emotions; medicalization of death; models of mourning; death rituals and their role in the community in the context of social change; death, notions of the afterlife and religion; dead body and material aspects of death; mass death and mass graves; the dead as vehicles of social memory and their social role; the relationship between the living and the dead; communication with the dead; death and the dead in popular culture.

Walter Tony 2020: Death in the Modern World. London: Sage. [COBISS.SI-ID 149198083]
A Companion to the Anthropology of Death. Robben Antonius C. G. M., ur. John Wiley & Sons 2018.
Death, Mourning, and Burial. A CrossCultural Reader. Antonius C.G.M. Robben, ed. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons 2018 [2004]. [COBISS.SI-ID 66488674]
Continuing Bonds in Bereavement. New Directions for Research and Practice. Dennis Klass and Edith Maria Steffen, ur. New York: Routledge 2018.
Trigg Dylan 2012: The Memory of Place. A Phenomenology of the Uncanny. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. [http://nukweb.nuk.uni-lj.si/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/logi… ]
Dying and Death in 18th21st Century Europe, Marius Rotar in Adriana Teodorescu, ur. Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2011. [http://nukweb.nuk.uni-lj.si/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/logi…]
Ariès Philippe 2008: The Hour of Our Death: The Classic History of Western Attitudes Toward Death over the Last One Thousand Years. Vintage Books. [COBISS.SI-ID 2949979]
Pile Steve 2005: Real Cities. Modernity, Space and the Phantasmagorias of City Life. London: Sage Publications. [pogl. 4] http://nukweb.nuk.uni-lj.si/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/logi…
Richardson Judith 2003: Possessions. The History and Uses of Haunting in the Hudson Valley. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press. [COBISS.SI-ID 55123298]
Ashplant Timothy G., Graham Dawson and Michael Roper, ur. 2000: The Politics of War, Memory and Commemoration. London and New York: Routledge. [COBISS.SI-ID 182628611]
Continuing Bonds. New Understandings of Grief. Dennis Klass, Phyllis Silverman and Steven Nickman, eds. Washington DC: Taylor & Francis 1996.
Verdery Katherine 1999: The Political Lives of Dead Bodies. Reburial and Postsocialist Change. New York: Columbia University Press. [COBISS.SI-ID 916877]