The Matter of Death. Space, Place and Materiality.
. Ed(S): Hockey, Jenny; Komaromy, Carol; Woodthorpe, Kate
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Description for The Matter of Death. Space, Place and Materiality.
Hardback. This collection opens up spaces where lives end, bodies are disposed of and memories generated: hospitals, hospices, care homes, coroners' courts, funeral premises, cemeteries, roadsides, the spirit world. Using material culture studies it illuminates the ways human beings make meaningful the challenges of death, dying and bereavement. Editor(s): Hockey, Jenny; Komaromy, Carol; Woodthorpe, Kate. Num Pages: 285 pages, 18 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBZ; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 436.
This collection opens up spaces where lives end, bodies are disposed of and memories generated: hospitals, hospices, care homes, coroners' courts, funeral premises, cemeteries, roadsides, the spirit world. Using material culture studies it illuminates the ways human beings make meaningful the challenges of death, dying and bereavement.
This collection opens up spaces where lives end, bodies are disposed of and memories generated: hospitals, hospices, care homes, coroners' courts, funeral premises, cemeteries, roadsides, the spirit world. Using material culture studies it illuminates the ways human beings make meaningful the challenges of death, dying and bereavement.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
285
Condition
New
Number of Pages
270
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230224162
SKU
V9780230224162
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About . Ed(S): Hockey, Jenny; Komaromy, Carol; Woodthorpe, Kate
JAN BLEYEN is an assistant at the research unit, Modernity and Society 1800-2000 at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium ANDY CLAYDEN is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Landscape, University of Sheffield, UK DOUGLAS J. DAVIES is Professor in the Study of Religion at Durham University, UK and Director of The Durham Centre for Death and Life Studies ... Read more
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