This book provides a critical overview of the changing ways people mourn, commemorate and interact with the remains of the dead, including bodies, materials and digital artifacts.
This book provides a critical overview of the changing ways people mourn, commemorate and interact with the remains of the dead, including bodies, materials and digital artifacts.
Tamara Kohn is Professor of Anthropology in the School of Social and Political Sciences, at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Martin Gibbs is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems and a member of the Interaction Design Lab (IDL) at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Bjorn Nansen is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Luke van Ryn has a PhD from the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Life in Death's Residues PART 1 Animating deathspaces 2. The Politics of a Threatened Space of the Dead: Challenges for (Re)Disposal in a Traditional Chinese Cemetery in Singapore 3. "Adapt or Die": The Funeral Trade Show as a Site of Institutional Anxiety 4. "Who do you remember?": Religion, Facebook and Existential Media PART II Data afterlife 5. Posthumous Performance and Digital Resurrection: From Science Fiction to Startups 6. The Decay of Digital Personhood: Towards New Norms of Disposal and Preservation 7. Digital Data Funerals PART III Material afterlife 8. Managing the pious cadaver: Whole body donation and Anatomy in Sri Lanka 9. Embracing and Distancing the Materiality of Death through Cremation 10. Ashes to Ashes, Rust to Rust? The recovery and recycling of orthopaedic implants post-cremation PARTT IV 11. Death in Second Life: lost and missing lives 12. Memeifying the corpse: The photograph and the dead body between evidence and bereavement 13. Selfie Eulogies: The Posthumous Affect of the Camera Phone
1. Life in Death's Residues PART 1 Animating deathspaces 2. The Politics of a Threatened Space of the Dead: Challenges for (Re)Disposal in a Traditional Chinese Cemetery in Singapore 3. "Adapt or Die": The Funeral Trade Show as a Site of Institutional Anxiety 4. "Who do you remember?": Religion, Facebook and Existential Media PART II Data afterlife 5. Posthumous Performance and Digital Resurrection: From Science Fiction to Startups 6. The Decay of Digital Personhood: Towards New Norms of Disposal and Preservation 7. Digital Data Funerals PART III Material afterlife 8. Managing the pious cadaver: Whole body donation and Anatomy in Sri Lanka 9. Embracing and Distancing the Materiality of Death through Cremation 10. Ashes to Ashes, Rust to Rust? The recovery and recycling of orthopaedic implants post-cremation PARTT IV 11. Death in Second Life: lost and missing lives 12. Memeifying the corpse: The photograph and the dead body between evidence and bereavement 13. Selfie Eulogies: The Posthumous Affect of the Camera Phone
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