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. INDICE: 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 -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-22416-2
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 13/08/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés