Shannon Lee Dawdy

About The Author

Shannon Lee Dawdy is a professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago. Her fieldwork combines archival, ethnographic, and archaeological methods to understand how objects and landscapes mediate human life.

Books by Shannon Lee Dawdy

The New Death

Mortality and Death Care in the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Shannon Lee Dawdy
The New Death brings together scholars who are intrigued by today’s rapidly changing death practices and attitudes. New and different ways of treating the body and memorializing the dead are proliferating across global cities. Using ethnographic, historical, and media-based approaches, the...
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