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Looking for Anthropologists who work on Anthropology of Death and Dying in the Islamic World Death, the afterlife and the hereafter play a dominant role in Islamic imagery.
The investigation of funerary evidence allows us to examine further the social dimension which, as has already been stated, is often much neglected within the anthropology of Islam. In the light of contemporary funerary anthropology, a more complex view of Islamic funerary needs to be taken,
acknowledging the diversity which exists and utilizing it to the full for the purposes of interpretation. The rich texture of detailed ethnographic and anthropological evidence available to the anthropologists interested in Islam enables not only information on property, social statues and prestige
to be obtained, but also information on possible non-orthodox ritual and beliefs, and perhaps even on the individual, the person who has been buried. Its interest can be divided into six parts which each comprise one main subfield of the anthropology of death:
1-Conceptualization of Death 2- Death and Dying 3- Uncommon Death 4- Grief and Mourning 5- Mortuary Rituals and 6- Remembrance and Regeneration May first aim is to have the list of Anthropologist, Ethnographers and researchers who work on the Anthropology of Death and Dying in Islamic countries and
societies for more debate and collaborations.
Contact Information:
Pedram KHOSRONEJAD, Junior Research Fellow at The Middle East Centre St.Antony's College, University of Oxford.
Oxford OX2 6JF UK.
Tel: + 44 (0) 07981690906, Fax: + 44 (0)1865-278190.
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