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Skin, Meaning, and Symbolism in Pet Memorials - Tattoos, Taxidermy, and Trinkets (Paperback)
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Skin, Meaning, and Symbolism in Pet Memorials - Tattoos, Taxidermy, and Trinkets (Paperback)
Series: Emerald Studies in Death and Culture
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In response to increased academic interest in the fields of death
studies, memorial studies, and human and animal studies, Skin,
Meaning and Symbolism in Pet Memorials examines the mourning
rituals which exist between people and their domestic pets. Paying
close attention to the changing role and increased prominence of
the companion animal in the domestic setting, each chapter
considers a different form of companion animal memorialization,
linking modern practices such as tattooing to historical examples
of animal focused memento mori, particularly taxidermy. The final
chapter adopts a forward focus in its provision of a framework for
future studies related to how death and memorialization rituals are
increasingly coming to occupy the digital space. While skin and
touch are the focal points of many encounters explored in the text,
what becomes evident is how the virtual realm is increasingly
intruding into the touch experience. As a result, the posthumous,
online afterlives of pets are set to become a social issue of
increasing significance to the death and mourning experience. This
work meets the needs of academics, post-graduate students and
general readers alike, appealing to anyone with an interest in
death studies, popular culture, tattooing and human and animal
studies.
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