Abstract
In a volume that seeks to understand ways that humans remember and commemorate the dead, we would be remiss if we did not begin by remembering and commemorating our friend and colleague Donny George Youkhanna. We remember him fondly and dedicate this chapter to his memory.
Commemoration of the deceased often forms a central element of intentional burial (although see, for example, Conklin [2001], where mortuary treatment is designed to promote forgetting the dead). Through diverse aspects of burial treatment and ceremony, a community not only expresses emotions that accompany the death of one of its members, but also remembers