The Third Burial: Passing between Worlds and Points of Transformation among the Siberian Chukchi

Birth and death; the two seemingly opposite extremes that appear to frame our existence are also possibly the most incomprehensible. As Françoise Dastur (2012) remarks, they are the two all-important events of our lives that we will never experience for ourselves. How we confront death thus becomes a question of how we confront the death of others.