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The New Death : Mortality and Death Care in the Twenty-First Century / edited by Shannon Lee Dawdy and Tamara Kneese.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series.
- School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Death.
- Death care industry--21st century.
- Death care industry.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies--21st century.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies.
- Mourning customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 360 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Fe, New Mexico : School for Advanced Research, [2022]
- Summary:
- The New Death brings together scholars who are intrigued by today's rapidly changing death practices and attitudes.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Shannon Lee Dawdy and Tamara Kneese
- Terminality : technoscientific eschatology in the Anthropocene / Abou Farman
- Old men, young blood : transhumanism and the promise and peril of immortality / Jenny Huberman
- A responsible death : valuing life from mortality tables to wearables / Tamara Kneese
- Deathnography : writing, reading, and radical mourning / Casey Golomski
- "For the one life we have" : temporalities of the humanist funeral in Britain / Matthew Engelke
- Loss in/of the business of black funerals / LaShaya Howie
- Cuddling death : exploring the materiality of reproductive loss / Stephanie Schiavenato
- The haptics of grief ; a taxonomy of touch in death care / Margaret Schwartz
- The embalmer's magic / Shannon Lee Dawdy
- To bear a corpse : home funerals and epistemic cultures in US death care / Philip R. Olson
- Making a living from death : Chinese state funeral workers under the market economy / Huwy-min Lucia Liu
- Grief transformed : new rituals in a Singaporean Chinese funeral parlor / Ruth E. Toulson
- Commentary : the new death / Ellen Badone
- Atoms, star dust, and fungi : death and secular eschatologies / Anya Bernstein.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 6, 2022)
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780826363466
- 0826363466
- OCLC:
- 1304243611
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