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The materiality of mourning : cross-disciplinary perspectives / edited by Zahra Newby and Ruth E. Toulson.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mourning customs--Cross-cultural studies.
- Mourning customs.
- Bereavement--Social aspects--Cross-cultural studies.
- Bereavement.
- Material culture--Cross-cultural studies.
- Material culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 265 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
- Contents:
- Introduction : emotions and materiality in theory and method / Ruth E. Toulson and Zahra Newby
- Dead people's clothes : materialising mourning and memory in Ancient Rome / Valerie M. Hope
- Remembering Roland Leighton : uniforms as the materials of memory in World War I / Emily Brayshaw
- Destroying objects, keeping memories / Eric Venbrux
- The Grottarossa doll and her mistress : hope and consolation in a Roman tomb / Zahra Newby
- Talking with a cold grey stone : the life and death of gravestones in contemporary Denmark / Anne Kjaesgaard
- The face of the deceased : portrait busts in Roman tombs / Helen I. Ackers
- Enduring grief : images of mourning from the ancient classical world to eighteenth-century Britain / Kate A. Beats
- The "worth" of grief and the "value" of bodies : managing the civilian corpse in Second World War Britain / Lucy Noakes
- Fragments of bone and chips of stone : materiality and mourning in a Chinese society / Ruth E. Toulson
- Sacred rituals of the security state : reclaiming bodies and making relics from Ground Zero / Charlotte Heath-Kelly
- Why materiality in mourning matters / Michael Brennan
- The death turn : interdisciplinarity, mourning and material culture / Douglas J. Davies.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 20, 2019).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Materiality of mourning.
- ISBN:
- 9781351127660
- 1351127667
- 9781351127646
- 1351127640
- 9781351127653
- 1351127659
- Publisher Number:
- 90100428327
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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