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Unusual Death and Memorialization

Author : Titta Kallio-Seppä
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800736037
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Unusual Death and Memorialization written by Titta Kallio-Seppä and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2022-08-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most cultures and societies have their own customs and traditions of treating their dead. In the past, some deceased received a burial that deviated from tradition. The reasons for unusual burial could result from reasons such as outbreaks of epidemics or wars, or from premature births, distinctive social status, or disability. Authors present a selection of cases addressing the issue of unusual deaths, burials, or ways to remember the deceased. Chapters explore theoretical views related to social memory of death and memorializing the deceased and their resting places during modern period. The case studies introduce varied views on ‘otherness’ that are visible in burial customs and memorialization.

Death, Memory and Material Culture

Author : Elizabeth Hallam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000181014
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Death, Memory and Material Culture written by Elizabeth Hallam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - How do the living maintain ongoing relationships with the dead in Western societies? - How have the residual belongings of the dead been used to evoke memories? - Why has the body and its material environment remained so important in memory-making? Objects, images, practices, and places remind us of the deaths of others and of our own mortality. At the time of death, embodied persons disappear from view, their relationships with others come under threat and their influence may cease. Emotionally, socially, politically, much is at stake at the time of death. In this context, memories and memory-making can be highly charged, and often provide the dead with a social presence amongst the living. Memories of the dead are a bulwark against the terror of forgetting, as well as an inescapable outcome of a life's ending. Objects in attics, gardens, museums, streets and cemeteries can tell us much about the processes of remembering. This unusual and absorbing book develops perspectives in anthropology and cultural history to reveal the importance of material objects in experiences of grief, mourning and memorializing. Far from being ‘invisible', the authors show how past generations, dead friends and lovers remain manifest - through well-worn garments, letters, photographs, flowers, residual drops of perfume, funerary sculpture. Tracing the rituals, gestures and materials that have been used to shape and preserve memories of personal loss, Hallam and Hockey show how material culture provides the deceased with a powerful presence within the here and now.

New Mexico Death Rituals: A History

Author : Ana Pacheco
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467142077
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book New Mexico Death Rituals: A History written by Ana Pacheco and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Mexico's harsh terrain, countless wars and epidemics were a challenging and fascinating environment for the many cultures and peoples who settled there. When tragedy struck, their faith and religious rituals allowed them to mourn, celebrate and commemorate their dead. From Pueblo Indians and Spanish colonists to Jewish immigrants and American veterans, many old traditions have endured and blended into modern society. The area is also home to many unique death sites, including the graves of Smokey Bear and Billy the Kid, and the largest contemporary collection of human bones in the world. Author Ana Pacheco guides you through the history of Christmas death rituals, roadside descansos, communal smallpox graves, Civil War memorials and more.

Spontaneous Shrines and the Public Memorialization of Death

Author : J. Santino
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137120215
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (371 download)

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Download or read book Spontaneous Shrines and the Public Memorialization of Death written by J. Santino and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an edited volume of approximately 17 essays that deal with various types of spontaneous shrines and other, related public memorializations of death. The articles address events such as New York after 9/11; roadside crosses, and the use of 'Day of the Dead' altars to bring attention to deceased undocumented immigrants.

Women and the Material Culture of Death

Author : BethFowkes Tobin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135153680X
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Women and the Material Culture of Death written by BethFowkes Tobin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the compelling and often poignant connection between women and the material culture of death, this collection focuses on the objects women make, the images they keep, the practices they use or are responsible for, and the places they inhabit and construct through ritual and custom. Women?s material practices, ranging from wearing mourning jewelry to dressing the dead, stitching memorial samplers to constructing skull boxes, collecting funeral programs to collecting and studying diseased hearts, making and collecting taxidermies, and making sculptures honoring the death, are explored in this collection as well as women?s affective responses and sentimental labor that mark their expected and unexpected participation in the social practices surrounding death and the dead. The largely invisible work involved in commemorating and constructing narratives and memorials about the dead-from family members and friends to national figures-calls attention to the role women as memory keepers for families, local communities, and the nation. Women have tended to work collaboratively, making, collecting, and sharing objects that conveyed sentiments about the deceased, whether human or animal, as well as the identity of mourners. Death is about loss, and many of the mourning practices that women have traditionally and are currently engaged in are about dealing with private grief and public loss as well as working to mitigate the more general anxiety that death engenders about the impermanence of life.

Spontaneous Shrines and the Public Memorialization of Death

Author : J. Santino
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781349734856
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Spontaneous Shrines and the Public Memorialization of Death written by J. Santino and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an edited volume of approximately 17 essays that deal with various types of spontaneous shrines and other, related public memorializations of death. The articles address events such as New York after 9/11; roadside crosses, and the use of 'Day of the Dead' altars to bring attention to deceased undocumented immigrants.

American Afterlife

Author : Kate Sweeney
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820346896
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book American Afterlife written by Kate Sweeney and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning writer explores the patchwork American cultural history of grieving the departed. One family inters their matriarch’s ashes on the floor of the ocean. Another holds a memorial weenie roast each year at a green-burial cemetery. An 1898 ad for embalming fluid promises, “You can make mummies with it!” while a leading contemporary burial vault is touted as impervious to the elements. A grieving mother, 150 years ago, might spend her days tending a garden at her daughter’s grave. Today, she might tend the roadside memorial she erected where her daughter was killed. One mother wears a locket containing her daughter’s hair; the other, a necklace containing her ashes. What happens after someone dies depends on our personal stories and on where those stories fall in a larger tale―that of death in America. It’s a powerful tale that we usually keep hidden from our everyday lives until we have to face it. American Afterlife by Kate Sweeney reveals this world through a collective portrait of Americans past and present who are personally involved with death: obit writers in the desert, an Atlantic funeral voyage, a fourth-generation funeral director―even a midwestern museum that shows us our death-obsessed Victorian progenitors. Each story illuminates details in another, revealing a landscape that feels at once strange and familiar, one that’s by turns odd, tragic, poignant, and sometimes even funny. “Sweeney’s quest for the “why” behind mourning rituals has given us a book in the best tradition of narrative journalism.”—Jessica Handler, author of Braving the Fire: A Guide to Writing about Grief and Loss

Mourning Remains

Author : Isaias Rojas-Perez
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 150360263X
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Mourning Remains written by Isaias Rojas-Perez and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mourning Remains examines the attempts to find, recover, and identify the bodies of Peruvians who were disappeared during the 1980s and 1990s counterinsurgency campaign in Peru's central southern Andes. Isaias Rojas-Perez explores the lives and political engagement of elderly Quechua mothers as they attempt to mourn and seek recognition for their kin. Of the estimated 16,000 Peruvians disappeared during the conflict, only the bodies of 3,202 victims have been located, and only 1,833 identified. The rest remain unknown or unfound, scattered across the country and often shattered beyond recognition. Rojas-Perez examines how, in the face of the state's failure to account for their missing dead, the mothers rearrange senses of community, belonging, authority, and the human to bring the disappeared back into being through everyday practices of mourning and memorialization. Mourning Remains reveals how collective mourning becomes a political escape from the state's project of governing past death and how the dead can help secure the future of the body politic.

Death and Events

Author : Ian R Lamond
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000469883
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Death and Events written by Ian R Lamond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique volume examines death from a socio-cultural events perspective. Drawing on the empirical and conceptual work produced by an international body of researchers, it is the first publication to look at death, dying, memorialization, and their mediation, from an events orientation. By placing the contribution of these scholars together, this book provides a unique opportunity to instigate an international, critical discussion, around the connectivities associated with death and events. Chapters consider connections to death and events on many levels, including individual, local, communally based, construals of the event landscape; the relationship between death and events into larger socio-cultural frames of reference. Chapteres also consider how death and events are manifest through diverse platforms of mediation, with a discussion of the media presentation of end of life events, and the articulation of death online. Case studies from a wide-ranging selection of countries, from Moscow to Bangladesh to Cambodia, are examined throughout. This will be of great interest to upper-level students and researchers in event studies as well as a variety of other disciplines such as sociology and cultural studies.

Coming of Age: Ethics and Biological Anthropology in the 21st Century

Author : Vanessa Campanacho
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803278366
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Coming of Age: Ethics and Biological Anthropology in the 21st Century written by Vanessa Campanacho and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2024-09-19 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of papers from AnthroEthics 2021 consider ethical issues related to biological anthropology. It combines views from people working in various countries and continents, allowing for a worldview on ethical discussions within biological anthropology.

Death Across Cultures

Author : Helaine Selin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030188264
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Death Across Cultures written by Helaine Selin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death Across Cultures: Death and Dying in Non-Western Cultures, explores death practices and beliefs, before and after death, around the non-Western world. It includes chapters on countries in Africa, Asia, South America, as well as indigenous people in Australia and North America. These chapters address changes in death rituals and beliefs, medicalization and the industry of death, and the different ways cultures mediate the impacts of modernity. Comparative studies with the west and among countries are included. This book brings together global research conducted by anthropologists, social scientists and scholars who work closely with individuals from the cultures they are writing about.

The Book of Extraordinary Deaths

Author : Cecilia Ruiz
Publisher : Blue Rider Press
ISBN 13 : 039918404X
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Extraordinary Deaths written by Cecilia Ruiz and published by Blue Rider Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Extraordinary Deaths introduces readers to the bizarre demises of thinkers, writers, monarchs, artists, and notable nobodies throughout history. Beginning in the fifth century BC with the morbidly unusual death of Aeschylus and journeying chronologically to identical twins - who died on the same day - in the present day, readers will learn of people they may or may not have ever heard of, but will forever remember for their memorable final moments. With Ruiz's witty descriptions and beautiful illustrations, her characters come to life on the page even as they reach their demises.

Beliefs and Rituals on Death and Dying. The Case of Mexican Catholics

Author : Mutinda Jackson
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3346504611
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book Beliefs and Rituals on Death and Dying. The Case of Mexican Catholics written by Mutinda Jackson and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2021-10-04 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2018 in the subject Sociology - Work, Profession, Education, Organisation, grade: A, Kenyatta University, course: sociology, language: English, abstract: On top of understanding the rituals and beliefs of death, burials, mourning and memorialization of the dead and afterlife beliefs among the Mexican Catholics, this paper will also be providing further insights concerning how these people perceive the presence of the dead and how they evade or accept the realities of death. Beliefs and rituals of death, burial and their significances, and the after death happenings, plus, the living and non-living connection remain to be focal, among all major cultural and even religious traditions. In this sense, the rituals and beliefs behind grieving and death vary from one culture to another, and they are often highly influenced by religion. Evidently, the Mexican culture has been observed to have a unique fascination with this aspect; a relationship that has generated myriad meanings, practices and attitudes concerning death across history, not to mention that it has also contributed to the building of the Mexican state and its respective culture; becoming a constituent of the national symbol. The distinct Mexican holidays’ expressions are normally reflected in the yearly religious and civic, alongside historical calendars. The primary demonstration of the relationships between death culture, holidays and the Mexican identity is the Day of the Dead, which is celebrated every year on 2nd November. While the population’s majority is considered to be catholic, it has been noted that religious syncretism, which dates back to the Spanish invasion and colonization, is mirrored during these holidays.

Curious and Unusual Deaths

Author : Russell Robert Winterbotham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Curious and Unusual Deaths written by Russell Robert Winterbotham and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Funeral Customs

Author : Bertram S Puckle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781716587214
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Funeral Customs written by Bertram S Puckle and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of funeral customs and burial practices, dating from ancient times through the late Victorian and early modern era, "Funeral Customs" is a classic in the field of necrology, an exhaustive examination of the cult of mourning and remembrance. Why do we memorialize the dead in the way that we do? How did such strange customs develop over the centuries? For all the grim souls seeking out an answer to these and other troubling questions, questions as to the nature of death, grief, burial and the riddle of life itself, this book is one that will not fail to capture their intellectual and emotional faculties. Death is the inexorable end of life; this book shows where that final journey might lead.

And in the End

Author : Keith R. Lindsay
Publisher : Fusion Press
ISBN 13 : 9781905745005
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book And in the End written by Keith R. Lindsay and published by Fusion Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of anecdotes on the weirdest funerals and final resting places the world over, this guidebook is a tongue-in-cheek romp to an aspect of life that frightens most people. Discussing the burial practices of the past—from the embalming practices of ancient Egyptians to the funeral pyres used in India—while looking closely at how death and funeral services are practiced today, this humorously macabre guide answers questions such asWhat kind of party should be held at a funeral ceremony?Who should be invited to speak?Should flowers be sent?andWhat music should be played?A lively discussion on the history of being buried alive and 10 ideas on how to stop it from happening to you is also included.

The History of Death

Author : Michael Kerrigan
Publisher : Amber Books
ISBN 13 : 9781905704590
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book The History of Death written by Michael Kerrigan and published by Amber Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death is universal, but each culture has found a different way to deal with it. This wide-ranging book examines the compelling subject of death, funeral rites and burial in different cultures and societies and balances grim facts with intriguing details drawn from many cultures and epochs, revealing how we define our lives through our passing.