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Our grateful dead : stories of those left behind / Vinciane Despret, Stephen Muecke.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Despret, Vinciane, author.
- Muecke, Stephen, 1951- author.
- Series:
- Posthumanities
- Posthumanities ; v.65
- Standardized Title:
- Au bonheur des morts. English.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Dead.
- Death--Social aspects.
- Death.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (177 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Vinciane Despret's unique storytelling, woven with ethnography and family history, assembles accounts of those living their daily lives with their dead"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Taking care of the dead
- Allowing yourself to be instructed
- The ties that keep the living and the dead together
- Watching over the things that matter
- Extending the work : the generosity of the dead
- Uncertain thoughts
- Putting our trust in spirits : how to call on them
- Protecting voices.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in French as Au bonheur des morts, Recits de ceux qui restent. Copyright Éditions La Decouverte, Paris, 2015, 2017."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4529-6592-7
- OCLC:
- 1261774422
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