The Matter of Death
eBook - PDF

The Matter of Death

Space, Place and Materiality

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Matter of Death

Space, Place and Materiality

About this book

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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Yes, you can access The Matter of Death by J. Hockey, C. Komaromy, K. Woodthorpe, J. Hockey,C. Komaromy,K. Woodthorpe in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Ecology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures and Table
  7. Biographical Information
  8. Preface
  9. 1 Materialising Absence
  10. 2 Never Say Die: CPR in Hospital Space
  11. 3 Making Hospice Space
  12. 4 Dying Spaces in Dying Places
  13. 5 The Materialities of Absence after Stillbirth: Historical Perspectives
  14. 6 Distributed Personhood and the Transformation of Agency: An Anthropological Perspective on Inquests
  15. 7 Behind Closed Doors? Corpses and Mourners in English and American Funeral Premises
  16. 8 Private Grief in Public Spaces: Interpreting Memorialisation in the Contemporary Cemetery
  17. 9 Wandering Lines and Cul-de-sacs: Trajectories of Ashes in the United Kingdom
  18. 10 Natural Burial: The De-materialising of Death?
  19. 11 What Will the Neighbours Say? Reactions to Field and Garden Burial
  20. 12 Memorialising the Suicide Victim: ‘Walking the Walk’
  21. 13 Potent Reminders: An Examination of Responses to Roadside Memorials in Ireland
  22. 14 Geographies of the Spirit World
  23. 15 Recovering Presence
  24. Bibliography
  25. Index