This collection opens up spaces where lives end, bodies are disposed of and memories generated: hospitals, hospices, care homes, coroners' courts, funeral premises, cemeteries, roadsides, the spirit world. Using material culture studies it illuminates the ways human beings make meaningful the challenges of death, dying and bereavement.
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This collection opens up spaces where lives end, bodies are disposed of and memories generated: hospitals, hospices, care homes, coroners' courts, funeral premises, cemeteries, roadsides, the spirit world. Using material culture studies it illuminates the ways human beings make meaningful the challenges of death, dying and bereavement.
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Materialising Absence; J.Hockey, C.Komaromy & K.Woodthorpe Never Say Die: CPR in Hospital Space; S.Page Making Hospice Space; K.Worpole Dying Spaces in Dying Places: Care Homes for Older Adults; C.Komaromy The Materialities of Absence after Stillbirth: Historical Perspectives; J.Bleyen Distributed Personhood and the Transformation of Agency: An Anthropological Perspective on Inquests; S.Langer Behind Closed Doors? Corpses and Mourners in American and British Funeral Premises; S.Harper Private Grief in Public Spaces: Interpreting Memorialisation in the Contemporary Cemetery; K.Woodthorpe Wandering Lines and Cul-de-sacs: Trajectories of Ashes in the United Kingdom; L.Kellaher, J.Hockey & D.Prendergast Natural Burial: The De-materialising of Death?; A.Clayden, J.Hockey & M.Powell What Will the Neighbours Say? Reactions to Field and Garden Burial; T.Walter & C.Gittings Memorialising the Suicide Victim: 'Walking the Walk'; C.Simone Potent Reminders: An Examination of Responses to Roadside Memorials in Ireland; U.MacConville & R.McQuillan Geographies of the Spirit World; D.Davies Recovering Presence; J.Hockey, C.Komaromy & K.Woodthorpe
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781349309108
Publisert
2010-07-16
Utgiver
Vendor
Palgrave Macmillan
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Aldersnivå
Research, P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet