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The Matter of Death Space, Place and Materiality

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 c...

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Other Authors: Hockey, Jenny (Editor), Komaromy, Carol (Editor), Woodthorpe, Kate (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 2010, 2010
Subjects:
Medical Sociology
Nature Conservation
Social Policy
Cultural Anthropology
Ethnology
Social Sciences
Social Medicine
Anthropology
Sociology Of Family, Youth And Aging
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary: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
Physical Description:XV, 270 p online resource
ISBN:9780230283060

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