Becoming an Ancestor Zelmarie Cantillon

Becoming an Ancestor Zelmarie CantillonA striking look at the death rituals of an indigenous community in North America. Powerful and beautifully written, this is the story of the Isthmus Zapotecs of southern Mexico and their unbroken chain of ancestors and collective memory over the generations. Mortuary beliefs and actions are collective and pervasive in ways not seen in the United States, a resonant deep structure across many domains of Zapotec culture. Anthropologist Anya Peterson

Huang focuses on the shifting relationship between gender and class

Offers cost-effective end-of-life solutions for families

the nature of time

livestock and marine waste

By analyzing 'the kiss' and its position - embedded as it is as part of our culture - it shows how history can use small gestures to take us to big issues concerning ourselves and others

drug courts have proven an enduring topic for discussion in international drug policy debates

About 60% of the annual world coffee production is harvested from Arabica (Coffea arabica) coffee

looks at the technologies that drive it and how they impact on content

Shows that it is necessary to understand intergenerational trauma and internalized oppression in order to understand Native Americans today

pasture is perishable

Katharine Howard

University of Limoges