Looking at the cultural responses to death and dying, this collection explores the emotional aspects that death provokes in humans, whether it is disgust, fear, awe, sadness, anger, or even joy. Whereas most studies of death and dying treat the subject from an objective viewpoint, the scholars in this collection recognize their inherent connection with death which allows for a new and more personal form of study. More broadly, this collection suggests a new paradigm in the study of death and dying.
Author(s): Aubrey Thamann, Kalliopi M. Christodoulaki
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 256
City: New York
Contents
List of Figures
Introduction • Aubrey Thamann and Kalliopi M Christodoulaki
Part I. Delaying Death
1. An Absent Presence: The Co-constitution of Loss • Alison Witchard
2. Immortality and Existential Terror: Learning the Language of Living Forever • Jeremy Cohen
Part II. Caregiving
3. Living, Caring, and Dying: Music and the House of Endless Losses • Carina Nandlal
4. Death and Fulfi llment: Mortuary Performance and the Impact on Self • Kalliopi M Christodoulaki
Part III. Confronting Death
5. Crossroads: Life and Death in Indiana • Aubrey Thamann
6. “What Has the Field Done to You?” Researching Death, Dying, and Bereavement between Closeness and Distance • Ekkehard Coenen
7. The Historical Study of Death and Dying: The Intersection of Familial Stories and Catholic Rituals • Sarah Nytroe
Part IV. Memorialization
8. Touch ’Em All: Memorializing Harmon Killebrew • Debbie A. Hanson
9. After Life: Laying Flower Memes on My Mother’s Grave and the Recollective Realm of Life after Death • Olivia Guntarik and Claudia Bellote
10. A Monumental Problem: Memorializing the Jonestown Dead • Rebecca Moore
11. Long Live Chill: Exploring Grief, Memorial, and Ritual within African American R.I.P. T-shirt Culture • Kami Fletcher
Conclusion • Kalliopi M Christodoulaki and Aubrey Thamann
Index
