Dead in Banaras - An Ethnography of Funeral Travelling

The work is an anthropological analysis of death and the dead, which attempts a significant reworking of the idea of death that is prevalent in Hinduism.

List of contents

• 1: Following the Dead: Corpse as Multiple Social Condition


• 2: The City Multiple: Place-Names Play Dead


• 3: Good, Bad Death: Family Necrology and Hospital Sojourn


• 4: Crying and Listening: Forms of Mourning and Community


• 5: Conversation of Pyres: Seen and Unseen Passages of Crematorial Aesthetics and Ethics

About the author

The author teaches Sociology at Hindu College, University of Delhi. He has also briefly taught at the department of sociology, Delhi School of Economics. His long-standing research interests centre around the anthropology of death, cremation as a contemporary global practice as well as grief and kinship. Apart from ethnographic research on funeral travelling in contemporary Banaras, the author has also studied cremation as a shifting ethical practice in twenty-first century Europe across two different locations, Denmark, and more recently, northern Italy.

Summary

The work is an anthropological analysis of death and the dead, which attempts a significant reworking of the idea of death that is prevalent in Hinduism.

Product details

• Authors: Ravi Nandan Singh, Ravi Nandan (Assistant Professor of Sociolo Singh, Ravi Nandan (Assistant Professor of Sociology Singh
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.08.2022
• EAN: 9780192864284
• ISBN: 978-0-19-286428-4
• No. of pages: 184
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; Sociology, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, Sociology: customs & traditions, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions, 21st Century, India, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Social issues & processes, Social and ethical issues, Cultural studies: customs and traditions, Sociology: death and dying, Sociology: Death & Dying