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Rite, Flesh, and Stone - The Matter of Death in Contemporary Spanish Culture, 1959-2020 (Paperback)
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Rite, Flesh, and Stone - The Matter of Death in Contemporary Spanish Culture, 1959-2020 (Paperback)
Series: Hispanic Issues
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Forensic science provides information and data behind the
circumstances of a particular death, but it is culture that
provides death with meaning. With this in mind, Rite, Flesh, and
Stone proposes cultural matters of death as its structuring
principle, operating as frames of the expression of mortality
within a distinct set of coordinates. The chapters offer original
approaches to how human remains are handled in the embodied rituals
and social performances of contemporary funeral rites of all kinds;
furthermore, they explore how dying flesh and corpses are processed
by means of biopolitical technologies and the ethics of
(self-)care, and how the vibrant and breathing materiality of the
living is transformed into stone and analogous kinds of tangible,
empirical presence that engender new cartographies of memory. Each
coming from a specific disciplinary perspective, authors in this
volume problematize conventional ideas about the place of death in
contemporary Western societies and cultures using Spain as a case
study. Materials analyzed here-ranging from cinematic and literary
fictions, to historical archives and anthropological and
ethnographic sources-make explicit a dynamic scenario where actors
embody a variety of positions towards death and dying, the
political production of mortality, and the commemoration of the
dead. Ultimately, the goal of this volume is to chart the complex
network in which the disenchantment of death and its reenchantment
coexist, and biopolitical control over secularized bodies overlaps
with new avatars of the religious and non-theistic desires for
memorialization and transcendence.
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