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Grave (Paperback) Loot Price: R275
Discovery Miles 2 750
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Grave (Paperback): Allison C. Meier

Grave (Paperback)

Allison C. Meier

Series: Object Lessons

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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Grave takes a ground-level view of how burial sites have transformed over time and how they continue to change. As a cemetery tour guide, Allison C. Meier has spent more time walking among tombstones than most. Even for her, the grave has largely been invisible, an out of the way and unobtrusive marker of death. However, graves turn out to be not always so subtle, reverent, or permanent. While the indigent and unidentified have frequently been interred in mass graves, a fate brought into the public eye during the COVID-19 pandemic, the practice today is not unlike burials in the potter's fields of the colonial era. Burial is not the only option, of course, and Meier analyzes the rise of cremation, green burial, and new practices like human composting, investigating what is next for the grave and how existing spaces of death can be returned to community life. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

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Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of origin: United States
Series: Object Lessons
Release date: March 2023
Authors: Allison C. Meier (writer)
Dimensions: 165 x 121mm (L x W)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 978-1-5013-8365-6
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory
Books > Earth & environment > Regional & area planning > Urban & municipal planning > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Customs & folklore > Customs
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Death & dying > General
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LSN: 1-5013-8365-5
Barcode: 9781501383656

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