| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 265 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction : emotions and materiality in theory and method / Ruth E. Toulson and Zahra Newby -- Dead people's clothes : materialising mourning and memory in Ancient Rome / Valerie M. Hope -- Remembering Roland Leighton : uniforms as the materials of memory in World War I / Emily Brayshaw -- Destroying objects, keeping memories / Eric Venbrux -- The Grottarossa doll and her mistress : hope and consolation in a Roman tomb / Zahra Newby -- Talking with a cold grey stone : the life and death of gravestones in contemporary Denmark / Anne Kjaesgaard -- The face of the deceased : portrait busts in Roman tombs / Helen I. Ackers -- Enduring grief : images of mourning from the ancient classical world to eighteenth-century Britain / Kate A. Beats -- The "worth" of grief and the "value" of bodies : managing the civilian corpse in Second World War Britain / Lucy Noakes -- Fragments of bone and chips of stone : materiality and mourning in a Chinese society / Ruth E. Toulson -- Sacred rituals of the security state : reclaiming bodies and making relics from Ground Zero / Charlotte Heath-Kelly -- Why materiality in mourning matters / Michael Brennan -- The death turn : interdisciplinarity, mourning and material culture / Douglas J. Davies |
| Summary |
Tangible remains play an important role in our relationships with the dead; they are pivotal to how we remember, mourn and grieve. The chapters in this volume analyse a diverse range of objects and their role in the processes of grief and mourning, with contributions by scholars in anthropology, history, fashion, thanatology, religious studies, archaeology, classics, sociology, and political science. The book brings together consideration of emotions, memory and material agency to inform a deeper understanding of the specific roles played by objects in funerary contexts across historical and contemporary societies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 20, 2019) |
| Subject |
Mourning customs -- Cross-cultural studies
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Bereavement -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies
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Material culture -- Cross-cultural studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Death & Dying.
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Bereavement -- Social aspects.
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Material culture.
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Mourning customs.
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Newby, Zahra, editor, contributor.
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Toulson, Ruth E., editor, contributor.
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| LC no. |
2018027433 |
| ISBN |
9781351127660 |
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1351127667 |
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9781351127646 |
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1351127640 |
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9781351127653 |
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1351127659 |
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