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The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains
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Passed On: African American Mourning Stories: A Memorial
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Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found
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Death and the Idea of Mexico
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Chinese American Death Rituals: Respecting the Ancestors
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The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery
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Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, and the Battle for Native American Identity
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The Eye of the Beholder: Julia Pastrana's Long Journey Home
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Grave
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Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experience in Japanese Death Legends
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Making a Killing: Femicide, Free Trade, and La Frontera
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Death and Funeral Practices in Portugal
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Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic
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Death and the American South
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American Afterlives: Reinventing Death in the Twenty-First Century
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The Potent Dead: Ancestors, Saints and Heroes in Contemporary Indonesia
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Grave Injustice: The American Indian Repatriation Movement and NAGPRA
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The Funeral Casino: Meditation, Massacre, and Exchange with the Dead in Thailand
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Dying from Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody
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The Blood of Emmett Till
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Purified by Fire: A History of Cremation in America
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Hanging Bridge: Racial Violence and America's Civil Rights Century
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Death, Dissection and the Destitute
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A Social History of Dying
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African American Historic Burial Grounds and Gravesites of New England
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The Corpse: A History
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The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail
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Death in England: An Illustrated History
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Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture
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This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
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Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
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The Sacred Remains: American Attitudes Toward Death, 1799-1883
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3.98 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Death, Mourning, and Burial: A Cross-Cultural Reader
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Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
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Celebrations of Death: The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual
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Funeral Festivals in America: Rituals for the Living
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Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present) (Volume 6)
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Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession
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The American Way of Death
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Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral Home
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The Law of Human Remains
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To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death
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Rest in Peace: A Cultural History of Death and the Funeral Home in Twentieth-Century America
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Cemetery Law: The Common Law of Burying Grounds in the United States
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The Denial of Death
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The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life
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Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
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With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial
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Mortals: How the Fear of Death Shaped Human Society
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After We Die: The Life and Times of the Human Cadaver
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Death to Dust: What Happens to Dead Bodies?
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
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Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums
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The Anatomical Venus: Wax, God, Death & the Ecstatic
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The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
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Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
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Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime
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Human Body Decomposition
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The Skull Collectors: Race, Science, and America's Unburied Dead
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199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die
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Looking at Death
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Reimagining Death: Stories and Practical Wisdom for Home Funerals and Green Burials
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The Victorian Celebration of Death
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The Victorian Book of the Dead
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A Beginner's Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death
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The Morbid Anatomy Anthology
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Mourning Animals: Rituals and Practices Surrounding Animal Death
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Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
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Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
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Lead Me Home: An African-American's Guide Through The Grief Journey
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Handbook of Social Justice in Loss and Grief: Exploring Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (Series in Death, Dying, and Bereavement)
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When Breath Becomes Air
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Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin
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It's OK That You're Not OK
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The Light of the World
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Grieving While Black: An Antiracist Take on Oppression and Sorrow
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
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Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies
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The Hunting Accident: A True Story of Crime and Poetry
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Afterlives: The Return of the Dead in the Middle Ages
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Discerning Spirits: Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages
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Three Minus One: Stories of Parents' Love and Loss
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Changing Landscapes: Exploring the growth of ethical, compassionate, and environmentally sustainable green funeral practices
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The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained
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Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
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Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius
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Afterlives of the Saints
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Death: A Graveside Companion
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Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures & Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs
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Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses
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Memento Mori: The Dead Among Us
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Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses
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Beyond the Dark Veil: Post Mortem & Mourning Photography from The Thanatos Archive
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