The Materiality of Mourning (eBook, PDF)

Cross-disciplinary Perspectives
Redaktion: Newby, Zahra; Toulson, Ruth

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Tangible remains play an important role in our relationships with the dead; they are pivotal to how we remember, mourn and grieve. The chapters in this volume analyse a diverse range of objects and their role in the processes of grief and mourning, with contributions by scholars in anthropology, history, fashion, thanatology, religious studies, archaeology, classics, sociology, and political science. The book brings together consideration of emotions, memory and material agency to inform a deeper understanding of the specific roles played by objects in funerary contexts across historical and contemporary societies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351127653
• Artikelnr.: 56889742

Autorenporträt

Zahra Newby is Reader in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick. Her research interests lie in the field of Roman art, and she has published numerous papers on Roman funerary art, as well as on ancient athletics, art and tet, and the uses of myth in Roman art. Ruth E. Toulson is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, with research interests, thematically, in death, the emotions, and material culture, and, geographically, in Southeast Asia and Mainland China.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Emotions and Materiality in Theory and Method 2. Dead
People's Clothes: Materialising Mourning and Memory in Ancient Rome 3.
Remembering Roland Leighton: Uniforms as the Materials of Memory in World
War I 4. Destroying Objects, Keeping Memories 5. The Grottarossa Doll and
her Mistress: Hope and Consolation in a Roman Tomb 6. Talking with a Cold
Grey Stone: The Life and Death of Gravestones in Contemporary Denmark 7.
The Face of the Deceased: Portrait Busts in Roman Tombs 8. Enduring Grief:
Images of Mourning from the Ancient Classical World to Eighteenth-Century
Britain 9. The 'Worth' of Grief and the 'Value' of Bodies: Managing the
Civilian Corpse in Second World War Britain 10. Fragments of Bone and Chips
of Stone: Materiality and Mourning in a Chinese Society 11. Sacred Rituals
of the Security State: Reclaiming Bodies and Making Relics from Ground Zero
12. Why Materiality in Mourning Matters 13. The Death Turn:
Interdisciplinarity, Mourning and Material Culture