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The New Death : Mortality and Death Care in the Twenty-First Century / edited by Shannon Lee Dawdy and Tamara Kneese.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Dawdy, Shannon Lee, 1967- editor.
Kneese, Tamara, editor.
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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