Автор: Sweeney Kate Название: American Afterlife: Encounters in the Customs of Mourning ISBN: 0820346004 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820346007 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 24030.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Someone dies. What happens next?One family inters their matriarch’s ashes on the floor of the ocean. Another holds a memorial weenie roast each year at a greenburial 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 at the spot 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 find themselves personally involved with death: a klatch of obit writers in the desert, a funeral voyage on the Atlantic, a fourth-generation funeral director - even a midwestern museum that takes us back in time to meet our deathobsessed Victorian progenitors. Each story illuminates details in another until something larger is revealed: a landscape that feels at once strange and familiar, one that’s by turns odd, tragic, poignant, and sometimes even funny.
Автор: Jane W. Davidson, Sandra Garrido Название: Music and Mourning ISBN: 0367229269 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367229269 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 43890.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: While grief is suffered in all cultures, it is expressed differently all over the world in accordance with local customs and beliefs. Music has been associated with the healing of grief for many centuries, with Homer prescribing music as an antidote to sorrow as early as the 7th Century BC.
Death and the activities and beliefs surrounding it can teach us much about the ideals and cultures of the living. While biologically death is an end to physical life, this break is not quite so apparent in its mental and spiritual aspects. Indeed, the influence of the dead over the living is sometimes much greater than before death. This volume takes a multidisciplinary approach in an effort to provide a fuller understanding of both historic and contemporary practices linked with death in Korea.
Contributors from Korea and the West incorporate the approaches of archaeology, history, literature, religion, and anthropology in addressing a number of topics organized around issues of the body, disposal of remains, ancestor worship and rites, and the afterlife. The first two chapters explore the ways in which bodies of the dying and the dead were dealt with from the Greater Silla Kingdom (668-935) to the mid-twentieth century. Grave construction and goods, cemeteries, and memorial monuments in the Koryŏ (918-1392) and the twentieth century are then discussed, followed by a consideration of ancestral rites and worship, which have formed an inseparable part of Korean mortuary customs since premodern times. Chapters address the need to appease the dead both in shamanic and Confucians contexts. The final section of the book examines the treatment of the dead and how the state of death has been perceived. Ghost stories provide important insight into how death was interpreted by common people in the Koryŏ and Chosŏn (1392-1910) while nonconformist narratives of death such as the seventeenth-century romantic novel Kuunmong point to a clear conflict between Buddhist thought and practice and official Neo-Confucian doctrine. Keeping with unendorsed views on death, the final chapter explores how death and the afterlife were understood by early Korean Catholics of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea fills a significant gap in studies on Korean society and culture as well as on East Asian mortuary practices. By approaching its topic from a variety of disciplines and extending its historical reach to cover both premodern and modern Korea, it is an important resource for scholars and students in a variety of fields.
Автор: Robben Название: Death, Mourning, and Burial: A Cross-Cultural Read er ISBN: 1119151740 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781119151746 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 54860.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The definitive reference on the anthropology of death and dying, expanded with new contributions covering everything from animal mourning to mortuary cannibalism Few subjects stir the imagination more than the study of how people across cultures deal with death and dying.
Автор: Connerton Название: The Spirit of Mourning ISBN: 1107011396 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107011397 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 63350.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: How is the memory of traumatic events, such as genocide and torture, inscribed within human bodies? In this book, Paul Connerton discusses social and cultural memory by looking at the role of mourning in the production of histories and the reticence of silence across many different cultures.
Автор: Tonkinson, Myrna Burbank, Victoria Название: Mortality, mourning and mortuary practices in indigenous australia ISBN: 0815346751 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815346753 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 38780.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Drawing on ethnography of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia, Mortality, Mourning and Mortuary Practices in Indigenous Australia focuses on the current ways in which indigenous people confront and manage various aspects of death. The contributors employ their contemporary and long-term anthropological fieldwork with indigenous Australians to construct rich accounts of indigenous practices and beliefs and to engage with questions relating to the frequent experience of death within the context of unprecedented change and premature mortality. The volume makes use of extensive empirical material to address questions of inequality with specific reference to mortality, thus contributing to the anthropology of indigenous Australia whilst attending to its theoretical, methodological and political concerns. As such, it will appeal not only to anthropologists but also to those interested in social inequality, the social and psychosocial consequences of death, and the conceptualization and manipulation of the relationships between the living and the dead.
Автор: Sweeney Kate Название: American Afterlife: Encounters in the Customs of Mourning ISBN: 0820350583 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820350585 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 18480.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Someone dies. What happens next?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 at the spot her daughter was killed. One mother wears a locket containing her daughter’s hair; the other, a neck- lace 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 nd themselves personally involved with death: a klatch of obit writers in the desert, a funeral voyage on the Atlantic, a fourth generation funeral director even a midwestern museum that takes us back in time to meet our death-obsessed Victorian progenitors. Each story illuminates details in another until something larger is revealed: a landscape that feels at once strange and familiar, one that’s by turns odd, tragic, poignant, and some- times even funny.
Автор: Heilman Название: Death, Bereavement, and Mourning ISBN: 1138508993 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138508996 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 46950.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: An encounter with the death of another is often an occasion when the bereaved need to be sustained in their loss, relieved of the anxiety that the meeting with death engenders, and comforted in their grief
Автор: Charlotte Horlyck, Michael J. Pettid Название: Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea: Ancient to Contemporary Times ISBN: 0824876768 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824876760 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 31410.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Takes a multidisciplinary approach in an effort to provide a fuller understanding of both historic and contemporary practices linked with death in Korea. Contributors incorporate the approaches of archaeology, history, literature, religion, and anthropology in addressing a number of topics organised around issues of the body, disposal of remains, ancestor worship and rites, and the afterlife.
Автор: Anna Haverinen Название: Digital Death: Online Mourning Rituals and Practices ISBN: 1472483278 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472483270 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 61250.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: What happens to your social media profiles when you die? And what are the implications of this online presence for those of us who are left behind? It is becoming increasingly clear that, with the arrival of the internet, death cultures of today differ immensely from the death cultures of the previous centuries, and that mourning and honoring rituals in online environments are now on the brink of becoming the norm. Anna Haverinen examines these issues in this up-to-date and far-reaching investigation of online mourning cultures and digital memorialization. Based on new and extensive ethnographic material, this book investigates how, why and where people mourn online. It also explores ideas of space, place, identity and community within internet memorials including social media applications such as Facebook and Twitter, online videos and blogs, multi-player role-playing games, virtual environments and memorial websites. As the author shows, technology has changed the way we grieve but it also offers new ways of helping society cope with bereavement by bringing people together during times of loss. As such, this book will be of interest to researchers concerned with grief, bereavement and death studies as well as scholars of anthropology, sociology, media and communication studies and social psychology. It will also appeal to anyone with an interest in digital culture and online practices in contemporary society.
Автор: Valdesogo Maria Rosa Название: Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt: The Mourning Rite in the Times of the Pharaohs ISBN: 9492940086 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789492940087 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 47520.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Examines the role that hair played in death in ancient Egypt.
