Titlebook: Death in the Early Twenty-first Century; Authority, Innovatio Sébastien Penmellen Boret,Susan Orpett Long,Sergei Book 2017 The Editor(s) (i

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DNA Computing and Molecular Programmingf global and traditional practices. The agency to act in response to death and the authority to make decisions about ritual and memorialization are challenged, reasserted, and negotiated in this context of changing ideas and technologies.

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Sequence-Dependent Variability of B-DNAties, a realm of personal choice felt to be lacking in the world before death; and life after death in China is defined by moral loss—the promise of a now-discredited communist paradise that can only be partially replaced by nationalism and senses of familial immortality.

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Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz,Hong Zhaothority in society. Thirdly, it delves into the social lives of such photographs and shows how they can engender deep feelings in those who behold them, and through these emotional responses obtain some power to influence peoples’ social lives

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Anthony Dipple,Leonora J. Lipinskis grave as well as their postmortem identity. Through a critical examination of changing notions of agency in mortuary rites, Boret refers to tree burial and other related non-ancestral practices as “people’s own grave” translating both the personalization of the burial space and people’s reappropriation of the representation of death.

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Introduction,chness of its material culture, and its multilayered functions and meanings in societies past and present. Studying death today requires consideration of changes brought about by colonialism and its aftermath. New movements of people and new technologies create new versions and new interpretations o

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Fear and Prayers: Negotiating with the Dead in Apiao, Chiloé (Chile)e benevolent and vengeful at the same time. They appear to have agency, and so do the living: they can placate the dead with proper funeral celebrations and ritual praying sessions. These celebrations, comprising ritual consumption of food and alcohol, promote alliances between individuals, honoring

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Quelling the “Unquiet Dead”: Popular Devotions in the Borderlands of the USSR. However, lived religious practices circumvented or outright flouted Soviet secular mandates when it came to burial, funeral, and commemorative rites. Particularly after World War II, the Soviet state itself used commemorations of death, sacrifice, and transcendence in transformative rituals that m

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Life After Death/Life Before Death and Their Linkages: The United States, Japan, and Chinates, and relates these envisionings to how they live their lives. We have found that in the United States life before/after death remains defined by the Christian God in moral guidance, which, whether believed in or not, cannot be escaped; life after death in Japan is defined by its myriad possibili

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Reincarnation, Christianity and Controversial Coffins in Northwestern Benine relatively recent introduction of coffins, together with church teaching, is challenging people’s notions of the self and what happens to a person’s invisible components when they die. These challenges result in personal struggles and controversy about burial practices as people try to negotiate d