紹介
This stimulating and thought-provoking book is focused on the various spaces, places and material culture with which people come into contact when dealing with death. It covers the disciplinary perspectives of anthropology, history, sociology and theology and its scope , ranges across the spaces in hospitals where death occurs, to the spaces in which bodies are viewed after death; considers the political nature of memorialising activities, and the therapeutic value of visiting places of death, for example after suicide. The chapters provide rich and current data from a large number of recent UK-based and international projects that examine various forms of death, dying and bereavement, providing insight into the different ways in which dying and bereaved people interact with the environment around them, and 'the matter' of death
目次
Materialising Absence
J.Hockey, C.Komaromy & K.Woodthorpe Never Say Die: CPR in Hospital Space
S.Page Making Hospice Space
K.Worpole Dying Spaces in Dying Places: Care Homes for Older Adults
C.Komaromy The Materialities of Absence after Stillbirth: Historical Perspectives
J.Bleyen Distributed Personhood and the Transformation of Agency: An Anthropological Perspective on Inquests
S.Langer Behind Closed Doors? Corpses and Mourners in American and British Funeral Premises
S.Harper Private Grief in Public Spaces: Interpreting Memorialisation in the Contemporary Cemetery
K.Woodthorpe Wandering Lines and Cul-de-sacs: Trajectories of Ashes in the United Kingdom
L.Kellaher, J.Hockey & D.Prendergast Natural Burial: The De-materialising of Death?
A.Clayden, J.Hockey & M.Powell What Will the Neighbours Say? Reactions to Field and Garden Burial
T.Walter & C.Gittings Memorialising the Suicide Victim: 'Walking the Walk'
C.Simone Potent Reminders: An Examination of Responses to Roadside Memorials in Ireland
U.MacConville & R.McQuillan Geographies of the Spirit World
D.Davies Recovering Presence
J.Hockey, C.Komaromy & K.Woodthorpe
