Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Ritual, Dramatic Performance, and Suicide: An Anthropological Perspective -- Part 1. The Suicide Note -- 3 The Presentation of the Self in Suicide Notes -- 4 Dramatic Suicide Notes -- 5 The Body as a Suicide Note -- 6 Suicide and the Communicative Condition: Audience and the Idea of Suicide -- Part 2. The Location of the Suicidal Act -- 7 The Location of the Suicidal Act -- 8 Suicide Away from Home -- 9 Hotel Suicide and the Drug Subculture -- 10 Back to Nature: Suicide in Natural Areas -- 11 Suicide in the Grand Canyon National Park -- 12 Suicide in Public -- 13 Suicide on Television and Online -- Part 3. The Methods Chosen for Suicide -- 14 The Methods Chosen for Suicide -- 15 The Rehearsal: Nonfatal Suicidal Behavior as a Precipitant of Suicide -- 16 Suicide by Fire: Ethnicity as a Predictor of Self-Immolation in the United States -- 17 Have Gun, Will Travel -- 18 Unusual Suicides -- 19 Methods of Suicide Around the World -- Part 4. Cultural Scripts for Suicide -- 20 Russian Roulette and Duels -- 21 Death by Seppuku -- 22 Self-Immolation as a Protest -- 23 Victim-Precipitated Homicide -- 24 Sati -- 25 Suicide as the Liberation of the Soul -- 26 Conclusion -- About the Authors -- Author Index -- Subject Index.
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