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The Matter of Death: Space, Place and Materiality

The Matter of Death: Space, Place and Materiality

Description

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.

Keywords

DEATH

2010Book

Author(s)Social Aspects of Death, Dying and Bereavement Symposium (2006 Sheffield, England)

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan

ISBN9780230224162

LanguageEnglish

SpringerLink Book

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