Heritage of Death

Today, death is being reconceptualised around the world as heritage, replete with material markers and intangible performances. This book brings together more than twenty international scholars to consider the heritage of death from spatial, political, religious, economic, cultural, aesthetic and emotive aspects. It showcases different attitudes and phases of death and their relationship to heritage through ethnographically informed case studies to illustrate both general patterns and local and national variations. This innovative and timely contribution will appeal to students and scholars of geography, sociology, anthropology, history and cultural studies.