The New Death : Mortality and Death Care in the Twenty-First Century Paperback / softback
Edited by Shannon Lee Dawdy, Tamara Kneese
Part of the School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series series
Paperback / softback
Description
The New Death brings together scholars who are intrigued by today's rapidly changing death practices and attitudes.
New and different ways of treating the body and memorializing the dead are proliferating across global cities.
Using ethnographic, historical, and media-based approaches, the contributors to this volume focus on new attitudes and practices around mortality and mourning--from the possibilities of digitally enhanced afterlives to industrialized "necro-waste," the ethics of care, the meaning of secular rituals, and the political economy of death.
Together, the chapters coalesce around the argument that there are two major currents running through the new death--reconfigurations of temporality and of intimacy.
Pushing back against the folklorization endemic to anthropological studies of death practices and the whiteness of death studies as a field, the chapters strive to override divisions between the Global South and the Anglophone world, focusing instead on syncretization, globalization, and magic within the mundane.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:352 pages
- Publisher:University of New Mexico Press
- Publication Date:30/04/2022
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- ISBN:9780826363459
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:352 pages
- Publisher:University of New Mexico Press
- Publication Date:30/04/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9780826363459
