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Leisure and Death An Anthropological Tour of Risk, Death, and Dying
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Death--Social aspects.
- Death.
- Dark tourism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2018]
- Summary:
- "Interdisciplinary study of dark tourism that examines the relationship between leisure and death, specifically how leisure practice is used to meditate upon and mediate life. Grounded in international anthropological case studies, the authors theorize on the links between spaces of death and leisure"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Dying in a strange land : tourism, hospitality and promises to the dead / Maribeth Erb
- Days of wine and walking : leisure, excess, and authenticity on the Camino / Keith Egan
- Johan Huizinga goes tombstoning with the devil / Patrick Laviolette
- Leisure in the "Land of the Walking Dead" : western mortuary tourism in Tana Toraja, Indonesia / Kathleen Adams
- That 'awful margin' : tourism, risk, and death at the Cliffs of Moher / Adam Kaul
- Tourism of darkness and light : entanglement of war memory and tourism in Palau / Shingo Litaka
- Momento mori and tourist encounters with authentic death in European ossuaries / Cyril Schafer with Ruth McManus
- Parading through the storm : risk, death, and parades in Northern Ireland / Ray Casserly
- How to eat an endangered species : Tuscan gastronomic tourism and Cinta Senese pigs / Rachel Horner-Brackett
- The social life of the dead and the leisured life of the living online / Tamara Kohn
- 'Rumour has it' : leisure, rumour and distortion at funerals in central Greece / Stravoula Pipyrou
- 'If you go down in the woods' : British woodland burial, leisurely funerals, and recreational burial grounds / Hannah Rumble
- Epilogue / James Fernandez.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-60732-729-5
- OCLC:
- 1035546186
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