Culture / Ethnicity

Aberration of the Mind: Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War Era by Diane Sommerville
Burning the Devil in Guatemala by Kate Newman (National Geographic, December 4, 2012)
Cemeteries & Gravemarkers: Voices of American Culture by Richard Meyer (editor)
Chinese American Death Rituals: Respecting the Ancestors by Sue Chung and Priscilla Wegars
“Chinese Graves and Gravemarkers in Hong Kong” by Chun-shing Chow and Elizabeth Kenworthy Teather (Markers, 1998)
“Composantos: Sacred Places of the Southwest” by Laura Sanborn (Markers, 1989)
Dance of Life to Honor Death by Joan Chatfield-Taylor (New York Times, February 22, 2004)
Death and the Afterlife in African Culture by Kwasi Wiredu (within Person and Community: Ghanaian Philosophical Studies I edited by Kwasi Wiredu and Kwame Gyekye)
Death and the American South by Craig Thompson and Lorri Glover (editors)
Death Becomes Her: Cultural Narratives of Femininity and Death in Nineteenth Century America by Sheri Weinstein and Elizabeth Dill
Death and Dying in New Mexico by Martina Will de Chaparro
Death and Dying: Views from Many Cultures by Richard Kalish (editor)
Death and the Idea of Mexico by Claudio Lomnitz
Death & the Maiden
Death in the New World: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492-1800 by Erik Seeman
Departures (2008)
Digging for the Disappeared: Forensic Science After Atrocity by Adam Rosenblatt
Dying to Eat: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death, and the Afterlife by Candi Cann
End Game (2018)
Ethnicity and the American Cemetery by Richard Meyer (editor)
Extremis (2016)
“Falling Seeds Take Root: Ritualizing Chinese American Identity Through Funerals” by Juwen Zhang (dissertation)
Hiroshima by John Hersey
“Life’s Quiet Companion” by Greg Lehman (within The Penguin Book of Death edited by Gabrielle Carey and Rosemary Sorenson)
Mortal Dilemmas: The Troubled Landscape of Death in America by Donald Joralemon
Mortality, Immortality, and Other Life Strategies by Zygmundt Bauman
My Father’s Wake: How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love, and Die by Kevin Toolis
“Nine Night” by Natasha Gordon (stage play)
“Myths Laid to Rest: Death, Burial, and Memory in the American South” by Kristen Burton (dissertation)
“Negotiations of Individual and Community Identity: A Study of Chinese-Canadian Mortuary Material Culture in Vancouver and Victoria, 1900-1960” by Ani Chenier (thesis)
Race & the Funeral Profession: What Jessica Mitford Missed by Kami Fletcher
Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century America by Ann Braude
“Real Business: Maryland’s First Black Cemetery Journey’s Into the Enterprise of Death, 1870-1920” by Kami Fletcher (Thanatological Studies, 2014)
Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
Taking Care of Business: Canadian Community Mausoleums and the Commercialization of Death, 1912-1936” by Dorothy Smith (Markers, 2015)
Talking to the Dead: Religion, Music, and Lived Memory Among Gullah/Geechee Women by LeRhonda Manigault-Bryan
The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story by Edwidge Danticat
The Aztec Women Who Became Goddesses After Dying During Childbirth by Alejandro López
The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist’s Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosina, Croatia and Kosovo by Clea Koff
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris
“The Changing Perceptions of Death and Burial: A Look at the Nigerian Obituaries” by Stella Ogbuagu (Anthropologica, 1989)
The Famished Road by Ben Okri
The Impossibility of Religious Freedom by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
The Long Goodbye: Why Funerals are Big Deals in Ghana by Paula Newton, CNN (March 11, 2014)
We Regret to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
“What Lies Beneath: Reading the Cultural Landscape of Graveyard and Burial Grounds in African-American History and Literature” by Deborah Lafayette Henderson (dissertation)

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