Keywords: Death & Dying, Death Care, Epidemics, Grief, Media, Memorialization, Mourning, Ritual 

American Anthropological Association panel, “Caring for the Dead in Troubling Times,” with Tamara Kohn, Sally Raudon, Hannah Gould, Ruth E. Toulson, and Anne Allison, November 11, 2020.

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Engelke, Matthew. 2019. “The Anthropology of Death Revisited.” Annual Review of Anthropology 48 (1): 29–44. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102218-011420. 

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Grimes, Ronald L. 2006. Rite Out of Place: Ritual, Media, and the Arts. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 

Haverinen, Anna. 2016. “Facebook, Ritual and Community – Memorialising in Social Media.” Ethnologia Fennica 42 (September). https://doi.org/10.23991/ef.v42i0.59284. 

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Holloway, Karla F. C. 2003. Passed On: African American Mourning Stories: A Memorial. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 

Huberman, Jennifer. 2013. “Forever a Fan: Reflections on the Branding of Death and the Production of Value.” Anthropological Theory 12(4):467–85. https://doi.org/10.1177/1463499613478096. 

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Kelly, Ann, Christos Lynteris, and Frédéric Keck, eds. 2019. The Anthropology of Epidemics. London: Routledge. 

Kneese, Tamara. 2018. “Mourning the Commons: Circulating Affect in Crowdfunded Funeral Campaigns.” Social Media + Society 4 (1): 205630511774335. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305117743350. 

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Laqueur, Thomas Walter. 2015. The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 

Lingel, Jessa. 2013. “The Digital Remains: Social Media and Practices of Online Grief.” The Information Society 29 (3): 190–95. https://doi.org/10.1080/01972243.2013.777311. 

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Mueggler, Erik. 2018. Songs for Dead Parents: Corpse, Text, and World in Southwest China.  Chicago, IL: University of  Chicago Press. 

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