This anthropological study examines the relationship between leisure and death, specifically how leisure practices are used to meditate upon—and mediate—life. Considering travelers who seek enjoyment but encounter death and dying, tourists who accidentally face their own mortality while vacationing, those who intentionally seek out pleasure activities that pertain to mortality and risk, and those who use everyday leisure practices like social media or dogwalking to cope with death, Leisure and Death delves into one of the most provocative subsets of contemporary cultural anthropology. These nuanced and well-developed ethnographic case studies deal with different and distinct examples of the intertwining of leisure and death. They challenge established conceptions of leisure and rethink the associations attached to the prospect of death. Chapters testify to encounters with death on a personal and scholarly level, exploring, for example, the Cliffs of Moher as not only one of the most popular tourist destinations in Ireland but one of the most well-known suicide destinations as well, and the estimated 30 million active posthumous Facebook profiles being repurposed through proxy users and transformed by continued engagement with the living. From the respectful to the fascinated, from the macabre to the morbid, contributors consider how people deliberately, or unexpectedly, negotiate the borderlands of the living. An engaging, timely book that explores how spaces of death can be transformed into spaces of leisure, Leisure and Death makes a significant contribution to the burgeoning interdisciplinary literature on leisure studies and dark tourism. This book will appeal to students, scholars, and laypeople interested in tourism studies, death studies, cultural studies, heritage studies, anthropology, sociology, and marketing. Contributors : Kathleen M. Adams, Michael Arnold, Jane Desmond, Keith Egan, Maribeth Erb, James Fernandez, Martin Gibbs, Rachel Horner-Brackett, Shingo Iitaka, Tamara Kohn, Patrick Laviolette, Ruth McManus, James Meese, Bjorn Nansen, Stravoula Pipyrou, Hannah Rumble, Cyril Schafer   “ Leisure and Death  opens up important new connections and lays the ground for further work to be done on this topic . . . an evocative, compelling collection.” —Fiona Murphy, Dublin City University “A truly exciting book that will make a significant contribution to both death studies and the study of leisure and tourism.” —Arnar Árnason, University of Aberdeen Adam Kaul  is associate professor of anthropology at Augustana College. He is the author of  Turning the Tune  and coeditor of the third edition of  Tourists and Tourism  and has written numerous articles and book chapters on traditional music, commodification, and tourism in Ireland. Jonathan Skinner  is a reader in anthropology at the University of Roehampton and adjunct fellow at the Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies, University of St. Andrews. He is the author of  Before the Volcano , editor or coeditor of several books, coeditor of the book series Movement and Performance Studies, and advisor to the arts health charity Arts Care. Leisure and Death An Anthropological Tour of Risk, Death, and Dying By Adam Kaul, Jonathan Skinner University Press of Colorado Copyright © 2018 University Press of Colorado All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-60732-728-8 Contents Leisurely Death and Dying? Body, Place, and the Limits to Leisure—a Prologue Jane C. Desmond, Leisure and Death: An Introduction Adam Kaul and Jonathan Skinner, Part 1: Leisure and Death on the Move, 1. Dying in a Strange Land: Tourism, Hospitality, and Promises to the Dead Maribeth Erb, 2. Days of Wine and Walking: Leisure, Excess, and Authenticity on the Camino Keith Egan, 3. Johan Huizinga Goes Tombstoning with the Devil Patrick Laviolette, Part 2: Tourist Encounters with the Dead, 4. Leisure in the "Land of the Walking Dead": Western Mortuary Tourism, the Internet, and Zombie Pop Culture in Toraja, Indonesia Kathleen M. Adams, 5. That "Awful Margin": Tourism, Risk, and Death at the Cliffs of Moher Adam Kaul, 6. Tourism of Darkness and Light: Japanese Commemorative Tourism to Paradise Shingo Iitaka, Part 3: Life, Decay, and the Sensual Experience of Death, 7. Memento Mori and Tourist Encounters with Authentic Death in European Ossuaries Cyril Schäfer with Ruth McManus, 8. Parading through the Storm: Risk, Death, and Parades in Northern Ireland Ray Casserly, 9. How to Eat an Endangered Species: Gastronomic Tourism and Cinta Senese Pigs Rachel A. Horner Brackett, Part 4: Afterlife and After-Leisure, 10. The Social Life of the Dead and the Leisured Life of the Living Online Tamara Kohn, Michael Arnold, Martin Gibbs, James Meese, and Bjorn Nansen, 11. Rumor Has It: Leisure, Gossip, and Distortion at Funerals in Central Greece Stavroula Pipyrou, 12. "If You Go Down in the Woods": British Woodland Burial, Leisurely Funerals, and Recreational Burial Grounds Hannah Rum