Shannon Lee Dawdy is an anthropologist, archaeologist, and filmmaker. A professor at the University of Chicago and a MacArthur Fellow, she is the author of Patina: A Profane Archaeology and Building the Devil's Empire: French Colonial New Orleans. Film website ilikedirtfilm.com
"Finalist for the PROSE Award in Cultural Anthropology and
Sociology, Association of American Publishers"
"Touching and beautifully written."---Rosemarie Szostak,
Science
"Fascinating. . . . American Afterlives describes an extraordinary
array of approaches to celebrate — and remember — the
dead."---Glenn C. Altschuler, Psychology Today
"It’s hard to make death sexy, but Shannon Lee Dawdy manages to do
just that in her fascinating new book about changing practices in
American death care and what they can tell us about American
society today. . . . Dawdy’s style is playful and somewhat
experimental. . . . [A] a highly imaginative, engrossing book about
a difficult topic."---Mara Buchbinder, American Ethnologist
"A personable book notable for its affection for life, the richness
of American culture and the brief, baffling experience of living as
a human."---Algernon D’Ammassa, Las Cruces Sun-News
"A fast-moving look at what happens to bodies today—embalming,
cremation, gravestones, pendants with ashes, etc. She sees no lack
of faith but more 'eclectic, syncretic, speculative, woo-woo, and
whackadoo belief.'"---Marvin Olasky, World
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