Death and the regeneration of life

Introduction / Maurice Bloch and Jonathan Parry

The dead and the devils among the Bolivian Laymi / Olivia Harris

Sacrificial death and the necrophagous ascetic / Jonathan Parry

Witchcraft, greed, cannibalism and death / Andrew Strathern

Lugbara death / John Middleton

Of flesh and bones / James L. Watson

Social dimensions of death in four African hunting and gathering societies / James Woodburn

Death, women, and power / Maurice Bloch.