Name/Title
The materiality of mourning : cross-disciplinary perspectivesEntry/Object ID
GT3390.M37 2019 Description
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.Lexicon
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bereavement--social aspects, material culture--cross-cultural studies, mourning customsBook Details
Editor
Zahra Newby, Ruth E. ToulsonPublisher
RoutledgeDate Published
2019ISBN
9781351127653Notes
Length: 265General Notes
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ContentsNote
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.