Culture
This Spiritual Tradition Could Be the Most Poetic Bereavement Therapy Ever Documented
A mourning ritual of dialogues with the dead speaks to the fragility of theological diversity
Stories by Piers Vitebsky
Piers Vitebsky studies religion and ecology among Indigenous peoples of India and Siberia. He is emeritus head of anthropology and Russian northern studies at the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge and author of several books, including Living without the Dead (University of Chicago Press, 2017). Credit: Nick Higgins
