Vibeke Maria Viestad is an archaeologist at the University of Oslo and Honorary Research Fellow atWits University, Johannesburg. She is the author of Dress as Social Relations. Andreas Viestad is a food writer, TV chef, restaurateur and food activist. He is the longtime host of New Scandinavian Cooking and a former columnist of the Washington Post. He is the author of Kitchen of Light and Where Flavor was Born and lives between Oslo and Cape Town.
"""No bones about it, there are wild and wonderful ways to honor the dead. TV chef and newspaper columnist Andreas Viestad and his wife Vibeke live in a Norwegian cemetery. Their fascination with burials led them to dig deep into relationships with death.""-- ""Sunday Post"" ""Death is existential, instrumental, and emotional. In revealing the stories of ceremonies and practicalities from near and far, across space and time, the Viestads offer us an account that's deadly serious as well as driven by a curiosity about rituals and feelings. A beautifully written, highly informative, and surprisingly entertaining book.""--Thomas Hylland Eriksen, anthropologist and author of ""What is Anthropology?"" and ""Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change"""