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Deathscapes : spaces for death, dying, mourning and remembrance /

"Death is at once a universal and everyday, but also an extraordinary experience in the lives of those affected. Death and bereavement are thereby intensified at (and frequently contained within) certain sites and regulated spaces, such as the hospital, the cemetery and the mortuary. However, d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Maddrell, Avril, 1964-, Sidaway, James D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Preface; 1 Introduction; Part I At the Threshold
  • Living with Death; 2 'It's Not Really Like a Hospice'; 3 Laying Lazarus to Rest; Part II Spaces of Burial: Taboo, Iconoclasm and Returning to Nature; 4 Buried Bodies in an East London Cemetery; 5 From Anti-social Behaviour to X-rated; 6 Rest in Peace? Burial on Private Land; 7 From Cabbages to Cadavers; Part III Negotiating Space for Memorialisation in Private and Public Space; 8 The Production of a Memorial Place; 9 Bringing the Dead Back Home.
  • 10 Memorialisation of US College and University Tragedies11 Private Spaces for the Dead; Part IV Art and Design in Service of Remembrance and Mourning; 12 Living to Living, Living to Dead; 13 Maxwell Fry and the 'Anatomy of Mourning'; 14 The Living, The Dead and the Imagery of Emptiness and Re-appearance; 15 Art and Mourning in an Antarctic Landscape; Index.