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" Deathscapes : "
edited by Avril Maddrell and James D. Sidaway.
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633530
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Deathscapes : : spaces for death, dying, mourning and remembrance /\ edited by Avril Maddrell and James D. Sidaway.
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Farnham, Surrey, England ;Burlington, VT :: Ashgate,, c2010.
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xvi, 305 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm.
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9780754679752 (hardback : alk. paper)
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: 0754679756 (hardback : alk. paper)
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: 9780754699354 (ebook)
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: 0754699358 (ebook)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: bringing a spatial lens to death, dying, mourning and remembrance -- At the Threshold -- Living with Death: 'It's not really like a hospice': spaces of self-help and community care for cancer -- Laying Lazarus to rest: the place and space of the dead in explanations of near death experiences -- Spaces of Burial: Taboo, Iconoclasm and Returning to Nature: Buried bodies in an East London cemetery: revisiting taboo -- From anti-social behaviour to x-rated: exploring social diversity and conflict in the cemetery -- Rest in peace? Burial on private land -- From cabbages to cadavers: natural burial down on the farm -- Negotiating Space for Memorialisation in Private and Public Space: The production of a memorial place: materialising expressions of grief -- Bringing the dead back home: urban public spaces as sites for new patterns mourning and memorialisation -- Memorialisation in US college and university tragedies: spaces of mourning and remembrance -- Private spaces for the dead: remembrance and continuing relationships at home memorials in The Netherlands -- Art and Design in Service of Remembrance and Mourning: Living to living, living to dead: communication and political rivalry in Roman republican tomb design -- Maxwell Fry and the 'anatomy of mourning': Coychurch crematorium, Bridgend, Glamorgan, South Wales -- The living, the dead and the imagery of emptiness and re-appearance on the battlefields of the Western Front -- Art and mourning in an Antarctic landscape.
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"Death is at once a universal and everyday, but also an extraordinary experience in the lives of those affected. Death and bereavement are thereby intensified at (and frequently contained within) certain sites and regulated spaces, such as the hospital, the cemetery and the mortuary. However, death also affects and unfolds in many other spaces: the home, public spaces and places of worship, sites of accident, tragedy and violence. Such spaces, or Deathscapes, are intensely private and personal places, while often simultaneously being shared, collective, sites of experience and remembrance; each place mediated through the intersections of emotion, body, belief, culture, society and the state. Bringing together geographers, sociologists, anthropologists, cultural studies academics and historians among others, this book focuses on the relationships between space/place and death/ bereavement in 'western' societies. Addressing three broad themes: the place of death; the place of final disposition; and spaces of remembrance and representation, the chapters reflect a variety of scales ranging from the mapping of bereavement on the individual or in private domestic space, through to sites of accident, battle, burial, cremation and remembrance in public space. The book also examines social and cultural changes in death and bereavement practices, including personalisation and secularisation. Other social trends are addressed by chapters on green and garden burial, negotiating emotion in public/ private space, remembrance of violence and disaster, and virtual space. A meshing of material and 'more-than-representational' approaches consider the nature, culture, economy and politics of Deathscapes - what are in effect some of the most significant places in human society"--Back cover.
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Death.
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Bereavement.
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Death-- Social aspects.
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Death-- Psychological aspects.
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Burial.
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Memorialization.
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Memorials.
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Sacred space.
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Death in art.
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306.9
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GT3190.D425 2010
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Maddrell, Avril,1964-
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Sidaway, James D.
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