James W. Green (PhD 1972, Washington)
Research Interests:
Comparative religion, phenomenology of religious experience, death, Islam;
Pakistan, West Indies
"I am working on
American death practices in comparative perspective, examining vernacular
expressions of death beliefs and public rituals and display. A number of
disparate settings are of interest: children's literature as a site for early
socialization; expressivism in death rituals and cemetery displays; grief as
therapy and its pop-psychology promoters; out of body experiences and the new
spiritualism; identity and the reconstruction of memory; the cultural meaning
of the (dead) body; bioethics and end-of-life controversies such as hastened
death; the internet and sites of memorialization; cultural variations in
expectations and preference in hospitals and hospices. My work is guided, in
part, by Giddens' studies of late modernism. Research planning on
cross-cultural issues in palliative care is in progress."
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Selected Publications:
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2008
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Beyond the Good Death: The Anthropology of Modern Dying. University of Pennsylvania Press.
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1999
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Cultural Awareness in the Human Services (Allyn and Bacon)
Third edition.
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