ASB253: Death and Dying Across Cultures

Suggested Resources for ASB253

Please find below searches in various Library resources to get you started on your own research journey.  Click on the links, enter additional keywords relevant to your own topic, and use some of the database limiters to focus the results.

One Search results for:

• Cultural anthropology AND death
• Cultural anthropology AND funeral rites
• death AND social aspects
• social media and funeral rites
• social media and grieving practices

Academic Journals:

• Anthropology Academic Journals (38 journal titles)
• Death Studies (academic journal)
• Omega: Journal of Death and Dying (academic journal)

Journal Finder:

• Subject: Social and Cultural Anthropology (644 titles including eBooks, journals and streaming video)

eBooks:

• The Anthropology of Extinction : Essays on Culture and Species Death
• Subject Term: Funeral rights and ceremonies (7 titles)
• Subject Term: Death--social aspects (22 titles)
• Keywords: anthropology and culture (3535 titles)

Scholarly Subject Encyclopedias:

• Encyclopedias on Death or Dying
• Topic Finder: Death (visual search function)
• Encyclopedias on Anthropology
• Credo Reference: Death and dying

Streaming Video:

• Films on Demand: Death, subject limiter - Anthropology
• Kanopy: The Future of Work and Death: The Impact of Technological Advances on Human Life
• Kanopy: Near Death
• Kanopy: Death Makes Life Possible
• Kanopy: Death, Dying and the Afterlife (series with 24 episodes)
• Kanoy: Anthropology and the Study of Humanity (series with 24 episodes)
• PBS/Alexander Street Press: Being Mortal