"Mort Études transculturelles." . . . . . . . . . . "Grave matters : a lively history of death around the world" . . . . . . "The one universal fact of life is death. Yet different cultures define and react to death so variously that the events surrounding it are a key indicator of the exuberant inventiveness of each society. In Madagascar the bereaved may be required to engage in drunken incest, in contemporary America to watch the postmortem video. The Yoruba of Nigeria mourn the young but joyfully celebrate the life and death of the old. In Melanesia, the Dobu stress \"replacement\": the living step into the shoes of the deceased, regardless of the havoc wrought on the rules of kinship." . "Cross-cultural studies" . "Death Social aspects." . . "Funeral Rites history." . . . . "Death sociology." . . "Funeral rites and ceremonies." . .