PART I Cultural celebrations, traditions and honouring the dead in dark events 1.A play to banish the darkness: The domestication of death in Bulgarian folk traditions 2.Sacred shadowed pathways: Kukai and the Shikoku Pilgrimage 3.Rituals of remembrance: Exploring mortuary and mourning rites among the Akan of Ghana 4.Nigeria Indigenous community and befitting burial for the deceased going-to-the-spirit land 5.Sacred sustenance: Culinary death rituals and mourning events among Assamese Hindus and Christian Nagas PART II Interpretation, representation and display of the dead for dark events 6.Commemorating the deceased through the Hungry Ghosts Festival in Hong Kong 7.Representing Samhain: Symbols, semiotics and Halloween 8.
Fact or Fiction: Walpurgis Night and the commemoration of the victims of Germany''s witch trials 9 . Italy''s martyrs for peace: Representing suffering and patriotic sacrifice after the Nasiriyah Massacre of 2003 PART III Negotiating commemoration, commodification and authenticity in dark events 10.Re-enacting the Gulag: Authenticity and commemoration of the Soviet penal heritage in Kazakhstan 11.Dark commemorative events and selective amnesia in Cambodia 12.Death, ritual, and deification: Examining the commemorative procession of Kerala''s iconic politician, Oommen Chandy 13.Ritual returns: Commemoration, commodification and the evolution of UK Halloween Festivals PART IV Historical dark events and reflecting on the past 14.''More like the first exhibition at a playhouse, than the solemnity of a funeral'': Spectating urban funeral events in late-eighteenth century London 15.Seeing justice done: A day at the Tyburn Fair in the long eighteenth century 16.
At the dark edge of life and death: Sin-eating rituals in Britain (1640-1900) 17.Shadows of the departed: Post-mortem photography and mourning rituals in Victorian society 18.Immortalising the premature death: Commemorating talented daughters in Ming-Qing China (16th to early 20th centuries) 19.Honour and sacrifice: The socio-cultural dynamics of Jauhar and co-cremation in medieval South Asian traditions V Dark events in popular culture and media 20.Manifesting ghosts and mimicking ghost hunters: Media and the rise of ghost hunting events 21.Heroism to horror: The reception and transformation of the ''blood eagle'' in popular culture 22.If they come, we must build it: Popular culture, tradition and the Hollywoodization of Día de Muertos in Mexico City 23.Celebration, cultural appropriation, or something else? La Catrina, Barbie dolls, and Day of the Dead 24.
La Santa Compaña: A demonstration of the literary and ritualistic richness surrounding death in Galician folklore PART VI Culture, controversy and dark events 25.Navigating culture, religion and controversy: The Penitensya rituals in the Philippines as a dark event 26.Death as a celebration of spiritual liberation: The controversial pathways of Aghori Sadhus in India 27.Multivalent organised commemoration of the Great War: Building transcultural memory with (embedded) fissures 28.Dark events and media controversies: Remembrance Sunday in the United Kingdom PART VII Dealing with grief and memory at and through dark events 29.The Dust Parlour: Speaking to the dead 30.Death at play: Celebration and memorialisation of motorsport''s dead 31.Eternal troupers: Circus death memorialization and community identity 32.
Managing death rites and mourning rituals in the modern era: The evolution of Brazilian funeral rites PART VIII Managing dark event experiences 33.Managing collective memory through funeral events: an experience design perspective 34.Cultivating a death network through dark academic and pedagogical events 35.Managing Black Metal Festivals 36.Managing event spaces and visitor experiences: Entering liminal worlds at the Whitby Goth Weekend and Dublin''s Bram Stoker Festival 37.Managing subcultural capital dynamics for dark events: The case of the Moonlight Goth Music Festival (Italy, 2009-2011) PART IX Legacy, decolonisation and equality for the dead within dark events 38.Murder mystery and mayhem: Digging up the human stories lurking in 19th century cemeteries 39.Considering the legacy of cultural genocide: Commemorating the colonial expulsion of the Garifuna from their Caribbean homeland 40.
Glocal perspectives on the dark heritage of Indigenous reconciliation events PART X Dark event futures 41.Royal funerals as dark events: Organisational and emotional challenges 42.Tea & hammers: New weapons in the battle with death anxiety 43.Glacier funerals as dark events of the Anthropocene 44.Bringing out the dead: Body Worlds exhibits as touchstones for reflection 45.Dark events and remaking our lifeworld: An afterword.