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Also available in paperback, 9781859733790 GBP17.99 (December, 2001)

About the Author

Elizabeth Hallam Director of Cultural History,University of Aberdeen Jenny Hockey Senior Lecturer in the School of Comparative and Applied Social Sciences, University of Hull

Reviews

'Offering insights into the one certainty of human life, this exploration of practices related to death holds a fascination that proved irresistible.' Anthropology in Action 'It is a book that was waiting to be written.' Bereavement Care '[The authors] offer a wide-ranging consideration of death, memory and the material world and the sociocultural processes by which they are understood and linked.' Choice