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- catalog abstract ""How do the living maintain ongoing relationships with the dead in Western societies? How have the residual belongings of the dead been used to evoke memories? Why has the body and its material environment remained so important in memory-making?" "Objects, images, practices, and places remind us of the deaths of others and our own mortality. At the time of death, embodied persons disappear from view, their relationships with others come under threat and their influence may cease. Emotionally, socially, politically, much is at stake at the time of death. In this context, memories and memory-making can be highly charged, and often provide the dead with a social presence amongst the living. Memories of the dead are bulwark against the terror of forgetting, as well as an inescapable outcome of a life's ending." "Objects in attics, gardens, museums, streets and cemeteries can tell us much about the processes of remembering. This book develops perspectives in anthropology and cultural history to reveal the importance of material objects in experiences of grief, mourning, and memorializing. Far from being 'invisible', the authors show how past generations, dead friends and lovers remain manifest - through well-worn garments, letters, photographs, flowers, residual drops of perfume, funerary sculpture. Tracing the rituals, gestures and materials that have been used to shape and preserve memories of personal loss, Hallam and Hockey show how material culture provides the deceased with a powerful presence within the here and now."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Death, memory & material culture".
- catalog contributor b11712570.
- catalog contributor b11712571.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""How do the living maintain ongoing relationships with the dead in Western societies? How have the residual belongings of the dead been used to evoke memories? Why has the body and its material environment remained so important in memory-making?"".
- catalog description ""Objects in attics, gardens, museums, streets and cemeteries can tell us much about the processes of remembering. This book develops perspectives in anthropology and cultural history to reveal the importance of material objects in experiences of grief, mourning, and memorializing. Far from being 'invisible', the authors show how past generations, dead friends and lovers remain manifest - through well-worn garments, letters, photographs, flowers, residual drops of perfume, funerary sculpture. Tracing the rituals, gestures and materials that have been used to shape and preserve memories of personal loss, Hallam and Hockey show how material culture provides the deceased with a powerful presence within the here and now."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""Objects, images, practices, and places remind us of the deaths of others and our own mortality. At the time of death, embodied persons disappear from view, their relationships with others come under threat and their influence may cease. Emotionally, socially, politically, much is at stake at the time of death. In this context, memories and memory-making can be highly charged, and often provide the dead with a social presence amongst the living. Memories of the dead are bulwark against the terror of forgetting, as well as an inescapable outcome of a life's ending."".
- catalog description "Figuring memory: metaphors, bodies and material objects -- Time, death and memory -- Spaces of death and memory -- Memories materializing: restless deaths -- Visualizing death: making memories from body to image -- Death writing: material inscription and memories -- Ritualizing death: embodies memories -- Memories and endings.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-228) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 249 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Death, memory, and material culture.".
- catalog identifier "1859733743 (Cloth)".
- catalog identifier "1859733794 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Death, memory, and material culture.".
- catalog isPartOf "Materializing culture, 1460-3349".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Berg,".
- catalog relation "Death, memory, and material culture.".
- catalog subject "306.9 21".
- catalog subject "BF789.D4 H29 2001".
- catalog subject "Death.".
- catalog subject "Funeral rites and ceremonies.".
- catalog subject "Memorials.".
- catalog subject "Memory.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Figuring memory: metaphors, bodies and material objects -- Time, death and memory -- Spaces of death and memory -- Memories materializing: restless deaths -- Visualizing death: making memories from body to image -- Death writing: material inscription and memories -- Ritualizing death: embodies memories -- Memories and endings.".
- catalog title "Death, memory & material culture".
- catalog title "Death, memory, and material culture / Elizabeth Hallam and Jenny Hockey.".
- catalog type "text".