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Mediating and Remediating Death (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Mediating and Remediating Death (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Studies in Death, Materiality and the Origin of Time
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From the ritual object which functions as a substitute for the dead
- thus acting as a medium for communicating with the 'other world'
- to the representation of death, violence and suffering in media,
or the use of online social networks as spaces of commemoration,
media of various kinds are central to the communication and
performance of death-related socio-cultural practices of
individuals, groups and societies. This second volume of the
Studies in Death, Materiality and Time series explores the ways in
which such practices are subject to 're-mediation'; that is to say,
processes by which well-known practices are re-presented in new
ways through various media formats. Presenting rich,
interdisciplinary new empirical case studies and fieldwork from the
US and Europe, Asia, The Middle East, Australasia and Africa,
Mediating and Remediating Death shows how different media forms
contribute to the shaping and transformation of various forms of
death and commemoration, whether in terms of their range and
distribution, their relation to users or their roles in creating
and maintaining communities. With its broad and multi-faceted focus
on how uses of media can redraw the traditional boundaries of
death-related practices and create new cultural realities, this
book will appeal to scholars across the social sciences and
humanities with interests in ritual and commemoration practices,
the sociology and anthropology of death and dying, and cultural and
media studies.
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