This thesis is about death, grief and bereavement counselling in the North East of England. It is based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out over a period of three years. I have three main objectives in this thesis. Arguing that the anthropology of death has neglected grief, I seek to describe and explain how people in the North East of England experience grief; how they make sense of the death of their loved ones, and their own reactions to those deaths. Working with interviews with bereaved people and drawing upon work in narrative analysis about the importance of stories in how we think, interact and relate to other people, I focus especially on the stories that bereaved people tell in their grief. I seek to illuminate, too, how grief is managed in the North East. In particular, I focus on bereavement counselling which has, I suggest, assumed something of an authority over how people should grieve. Seeking inspiration from the anthropolo gy of emotion and the Foucauldian notions of discourse and 'technologies of the self', I examine how grief is constituted in bereavement counselling both in training and practice. Finally, I compare how bereaved people experience grief with the construction of grief in bereavement counselling. In bereavement counselling the focus is upon the emotions the bereaved is experiencing in the present; grief is understood as an emotion that has its origin and location inside the individual mourner now. For bereaved people, grief is a part of their ongoing relationships and interactions with their loved ones, and other people around them, and as such it is a feature of the history of those relationships and interactions. The difference between the experiences of the bereaved and the workings of bereavement counselling IS explained by placing the latter in the context of modem govemmentality.

MESQUITA, Breno Taveira. Como se eu carregasse um monte de cadáver atrás de mim: os vivos e os mortos no NUTAF da PEFOCE. 2016.105f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia, Fortaleza (CE), 2016. / Submitted by Gustavo Daher (gdaherufc@hotmail.com) on 2017-05-18T16:11:27Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_dis_btmesquita.pdf: 2927674 bytes, checksum: 438c278d68d8412f159b3b34e81ed792 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-05-19T14:10:23Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_dis_btmesquita.pdf: 2927674 bytes, checksum: 438c278d68d8412f159b3b34e81ed792 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-19T14:10:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_dis_btmesquita.pdf: 2927674 bytes, checksum: 438c278d68d8412f159b3b34e81ed792 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016 / The following paper aims to describe and analyze the relationship between expertise and coroners aids as well as his views about death and the dead - elements that are routine in their profession. The survey was conducted as having locus the NUTAF - Center for Forensic Thanatology a Coordination sector of Legal Medicine of PEFOCE - Ceará State Forensics located at Avenida Castelo Branco 901 in the neighborhood Moura Brazil. Discuss ways of how this "daily death" presents the study space as well as the looks of these professionals perceive the body as a "thing" and the implications of this category when applied to the dead. / O seguinte documento visa descrever e analisar as relações entre auxiliares de perícia e médicos-legistas bem como as suas concepções acerca da morte e do morto – elementos que são rotina em sua profissão. A pesquisa foi realizada tendo como locus o NUTAF – Núcleo de Tanatologia Forense, um setor da Coordenadoria de Medicina Legal da PEFOCE – Perícia Forense do Estado do Ceará localizada na Avenida Castelo Branco nº901 no Bairro Moura Brasil. Discuto as maneiras de como essa “morte cotidiana” apresenta-se no espaço estudado, bem como os olhares destes profissionais que apreendem o cadáver como sendo uma “coisa” e as implicações desta categoria quando aplicada aos mortos.

1999 Dozier Award Winner / This paper examines critically several key assumptions that have guided many archaeological interpretations of prehistoric mortuary assemblages. It is argued that more sophisticated models of mortuary deposition need to be incorporated into research that attempts to reconstruct community structure and other sociological variables from variation in grave assemblages. To illustrate this point, and to begin to build such models, a study of artifacts deposited in mortuary contexts was conducted by the author in a major urban center in Arizona in 1996. Several different behavioral pathways through which objects enter mortuary contexts are identified in this study, and some general material correlates for each are specified. This study also provides a vehicle for exploring preliminarily how, and to what extent, various forms of mortuary depostion are related to the social identities of the deceased. Finally, a synthetic model is developed which seeks to explain variation in mortuary deposition in terms of behavioral interactions between the living, on the one hand, and the deceased and various classes of material culture, on the other. It is hoped that the general models and material correlates developed through this study can be elaborated by prehistorians to bolster inferences drawn from specific mortuary populations and to explore previously-uncharted realms of mortuary behavior in the past.

CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / O seguinte documento visa descrever e analisar as relaÃÃes entre auxiliares de perÃcia e mÃdicos-legistas bem como as suas concepÃÃes acerca da morte e do morto â elementos que sÃo rotina em sua profissÃo. A pesquisa foi realizada tendo como locus o NUTAF â NÃcleo de Tanatologia Forense, um setor da Coordenadoria de Medicina Legal da PEFOCE â PerÃcia Forense do Estado do Cearà localizada na Avenida Castelo Branco nÂ901 no Bairro Moura Brasil. Discuto as maneiras de como essa âmorte cotidianaâ apresenta-se no espaÃo estudado, bem como os olhares destes profissionais que apreendem o cadÃver como sendo uma âcoisaâ e as implicaÃÃes desta categoria quando aplicada aos mortos. / The following paper aims to describe and analyze the relationship between expertise and coroners aids as well as his views about death and the dead - elements that are routine in their profession. The survey was conducted as having locus the NUTAF - Center for Forensic Thanatology a Coordination sector of Legal Medicine of PEFOCE - Cearà State Forensics located at Avenida Castelo Branco 901 in the neighborhood Moura Brazil. Discuss ways of how this "daily death" presents the study space as well as the looks of these professionals perceive the body as a "thing" and the implications of this category when applied to the dead.