Death and Renewal

Death and the rituals that surround it have long been a focus of anthropological passions, for death mediates the social worlds in which we create ourselves as persons and collectives and defines our moments of transition. Deborah A. Thomas reflects on the death of her advisor, Constance Sutton, who died in August of 2018 at age 92, after serving the field of anthropology as a professor at New York University for close to sixty years.