The new death : mortality and death care in the twenty-first century

The new death : mortality and death care in the twenty-first century / edited by Shannon Lee Dawdy and Tamara Kneese.

"he 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...

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Other Authors: Dawdy, Shannon Lee, 1967- (Editor), Kneese, Tamara (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Santa Fe : Albuquerque : School for Advanced Research Press ; University of New Mexico Press, 2022.
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2022.
Series:School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series.
Subjects:
2000-2099
Death.
Death care industry > 21st century.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > 21st century.
Mourning customs.
Mortality.
Death > Social aspects > 21st century.
deaths.
mortality.
Death
Death care industry
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Mourning customs
Essays
Essays.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Shannon Lee Dawdy and Tamara Kneese
  • Terminality : technoscientific eschatology in the Anthropocene / Abou Farman
  • Old men, young blood : transhumanism and the promise and peril of immortality / Jenny Huberman
  • A responsible death : valuing life from mortality tables to wearables / Tamara Kneese
  • Deathnography : writing, reading, and radical mourning / Casey Golomski
  • "For the one life we have" : temporalities of the humanist funeral in Britain / Matthew Engelke
  • Loss in/of the business of black funerals / LaShaya Howie
  • Cuddling death : exploring the materiality of reproductive loss / Stephanie Schiavenato
  • The haptics of grief ; a taxonomy of touch in death care / Margaret Schwartz
  • The embalmer's magic / Shannon Lee Dawdy
  • To bear a corpse : home funerals and epistemic cultures in US death care / Philip R. Olson
  • Making a living from death : Chinese state funeral workers under the market economy / Huwy-min Lucia Liu
  • Grief transformed : new rituals in a Singaporean Chinese funeral parlor / Ruth E. Toulson
  • Commentary : the new death / Ellen Badone
  • Atoms, star dust, and fungi : death and secular eschatologies / Anya Bernstein.

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