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The New Death - Mortality and Death Care in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
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The New Death - Mortality and Death Care in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
Series: School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series
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The New Death brings together scholars who are intrigued by today's
rapidly changing death practices and attitudes. New and different
ways of treating the body and memorializing the dead are
proliferating across global cities. Using ethnographic, historical,
and media-based approaches, the contributors to this volume focus
on new attitudes and practices around mortality and mourning--from
the possibilities of digitally enhanced afterlives to
industrialized "necro-waste," the ethics of care, the meaning of
secular rituals, and the political economy of death. Together, the
chapters coalesce around the argument that there are two major
currents running through the new death--reconfigurations of
temporality and of intimacy. Pushing back against the
folklorization endemic to anthropological studies of death
practices and the whiteness of death studies as a field, the
chapters strive to override divisions between the Global South and
the Anglophone world, focusing instead on syncretization,
globalization, and magic within the mundane.
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