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"""Death is existential, instrumental, and emotional. In revealing the stories of ceremonies and practicalities from near and far, across space and time, the Viestads offer us an account that's deadly serious as well as driven by a curiosity about rituals and feelings. A beautifully written, highly informative, and surprisingly entertaining book.""--Thomas Hylland Eriksen, anthropologist and author of ""What is Anthropology?"" and ""Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change"""

Death is existential, instrumental and emotional. In revealing the stories of ceremonies and practicalities from near and far, across space and time, the Viestads offer us an account that’s deadly serious as well as driven by a curiosity about rituals and feelings. A beautifully written, highly informative and surprisingly entertaining book. * Thomas Hylland Eriksen, anthropologist and author of What is Anthropology? and Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change * Very much in the spirit of Día de los Muertos, this erudite travelogue examines how different cultures honour their dead. Wife-and-husband authors Vibeke Maria and Andreas Viestad journey to archaeological sites in Spain, encounter fantasy coffins in Ghana and learn about transforming loved ones’ ashes into diamonds in Norway. * National Geographic Traveller * take[s] readers on an exciting and engaging journey to probe death and burial customs throughout world history . . . The authors are most able writers, offering a book that is extremely readable, compassionately written, and full of vivid examples, all of which make for an illuminating and satisfying reading experience. Highly recommended. * Choice *

"""No bones about it, there are wild and wonderful ways to honor the dead. TV chef and newspaper columnist Andreas Viestad and his wife Vibeke live in a Norwegian cemetery. Their fascination with burials led them to dig deep into relationships with death.""-- ""Sunday Post"" ""Death is existential, instrumental, and emotional. In revealing the stories of ceremonies and practicalities from near and far, across space and time, the Viestads offer us an account that's deadly serious as well as driven by a curiosity about rituals and feelings. A beautifully written, highly informative, and surprisingly entertaining book.""--Thomas Hylland Eriksen, anthropologist and author of ""What is Anthropology?"" and ""Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change"""

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Vibeke Maria Viestad is an archaeologist at the University of Oslo and Honorary Research Fellow at Wits University, Johannesburg. She is the author of Dress as Social Relations. Andreas Viestad is a writer, TV chef, restaurateur, and food activist. He is the longtime host of New Scandinavian Cooking and a former columnist for the Washington Post. He is the author of Kitchen of Light and Where Flavor Was Born and lives between Oslo and Cape Town.

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