Death, Mourning, Afterlives: Global Perspectives (ANTH-0171)

Spring 2025 · ANTH 0171 · Tufts University · 3 credits · Undergraduate

Cross-cultural study of social, religious, and bioethical dimensions of death. Medical and legal aspects of dying, mourning, funeral and mortuary rites and their social transformation, activism in the aftermath of death, and comparative cosmological and religious concepts of afterlife and their social and political implications.

Course codes: ANTH-0171, ANTH 0171, ANTH0171, ANTH-171, ANTH 171, ANTH171, REL-0137, REL 0137, REL0137, REL-137, REL 137, REL137

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