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This book provides a critical overview of the changing ways people
mourn, commemorate and interact with the remains of the dead,
including bodies, materials and digital artefacts. It focuses on
how residues of death persist and circulate through different
spaces, materials, data and mediated memories, refiguring how the
disposal of the dead is understood, enacted and contested across
the globe. The volume contains contributions by scholars from a
number of disciplines and includes a diverse range of case studies
drawn from Asia, Europe and North America. Together they reveal how
rapidly changing practices, industries and experiences around
death's remains involve the entwining of digital technologies with
other material and ritualised forms of commemoration, as well as
with shifting boundaries between the sacred and the profane, the
institutional and the vernacular, the public and the private.
This book provides a critical overview of the changing ways people
mourn, commemorate and interact with the remains of the dead,
including bodies, materials and digital artefacts. It focuses on
how residues of death persist and circulate through different
spaces, materials, data and mediated memories, refiguring how the
disposal of the dead is understood, enacted and contested across
the globe. The volume contains contributions by scholars from a
number of disciplines and includes a diverse range of case studies
drawn from Asia, Europe and North America. Together they reveal how
rapidly changing practices, industries and experiences around
death's remains involve the entwining of digital technologies with
other material and ritualised forms of commemoration, as well as
with shifting boundaries between the sacred and the profane, the
institutional and the vernacular, the public and the private.
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Death and Digital Media (Paperback)
Michael Arnold, Martin Gibbs, Tamara Kohn, James Meese, Bjorn Nansen; Afterword by …
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R1,217
Discovery Miles 12 170
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Death and Digital Media provides a critical overview of how people
mourn, commemorate and interact with the dead through digital
media. It maps the historical and shifting landscape of digital
death, considering a wide range of social, commercial and
institutional responses to technological innovations. The authors
examine multiple digital platforms and offer a series of case
studies drawn from North America, Europe and Australia. The book
delivers fresh insight and analysis from an interdisciplinary
perspective, drawing on anthropology, sociology, science and
technology studies, human-computer interaction, and media studies.
It is key reading for students and scholars in these disciplines,
as well as for professionals working in bereavement support
capacities.
This book explores the historical and archaeological evidence of
the relationships between a coastal community and the shipwrecks
that have occurred along the southern Australian shoreline over the
last 160 years. It moves beyond a focus on shipwrecks as events and
shows the short and long term economic, social and symbolic
significance of wrecks and strandings to the people on the
shoreline. This volume draws on extensive oral histories,
documentary and archaeological research to examine the tensions
within the community, negotiating its way between its roles as
shipwreck saviours and salvors.
This book explores the historical and archaeological evidence of
the relationships between a coastal community and the shipwrecks
that have occurred along the southern Australian shoreline over the
last 160 years. It moves beyond a focus on shipwrecks as events and
shows the short and long term economic, social and symbolic
significance of wrecks and strandings to the people on the
shoreline. This volume draws on extensive oral histories,
documentary and archaeological research to examine the tensions
within the community, negotiating its way between its roles as
shipwreck saviours and salvors.
It is now about 100 years since the chloroplast has been recognized
as the site of photosynthesis in plant cells. The last 20 years
have seen a striking increase in interest in the structure and
function of the chloroplast. Hastened on by powerful new tools such
as the electron microscope and the newer methods of isolation and
analysis of chloroplasts, there is presently considerable
experimental work on the properties of this organelle. In such a
rapidly moving field and one which is reviewed systematically is
various Annual Reviews, it is not possible to present a detailed
critique of the prolific literature in a book of reasonable size.
Rather the decision was made to sacrifice complete coverage of the
field and to indicate general areas of investigation. In
organization, problems here dealt with, are those concerned with
the electron microscopy of chloroplast structure, development and
conformation, genetic control of chloroplast development,
characterization of some of the major components of the chloroplast
and the biochemical properties of the chloroplast including the for
mation of adenosine triphosphate and reduced pyridine nucleotide
and the assim ilation of carbon dioxide into carbohydrate with
subsequent conversion to second ary products. A historical outline
on the general subject "Photosynthesis and the Chloroplast" has
been included to place into proper perspective the rapid
developments in the several areas covered in the book. I am
particularly indebted to Dr. Roy E."
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Death and Digital Media (Hardcover)
Michael Arnold, Martin Gibbs, Tamara Kohn, James Meese, Bjorn Nansen; Afterword by …
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R4,130
Discovery Miles 41 300
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Death and Digital Media provides a critical overview of how people
mourn, commemorate and interact with the dead through digital
media. It maps the historical and shifting landscape of digital
death, considering a wide range of social, commercial and
institutional responses to technological innovations. The authors
examine multiple digital platforms and offer a series of case
studies drawn from North America, Europe and Australia. The book
delivers fresh insight and analysis from an interdisciplinary
perspective, drawing on anthropology, sociology, science and
technology studies, human-computer interaction, and media studies.
It is key reading for students and scholars in these disciplines,
as well as for professionals working in bereavement support
capacities.
A famous philosopher. A giant meat cleaver. A sordid tale of love,
revenge, hatred, and interstellar shenanigans, all stirred in a
giant copper pot and boiled with leeks. This is the
never-before-told bizarro history of the illustrious Francois-Marie
Arouet, known to the world as Voltaire. This is pain This is
suffering This is wild, sticky-sweat-between-the-sheets action
Inter-dimensional space and time travel, space-brides, desiccated
planets, great literature, and Slobodan Milosevic, too. We invite
you to the party. Please bring your own soap and Quaaludes.
The simple-minded and the insane. Mercenaries, demons, drunks, and
unstable men. The dead and living. A world full of simpletons and
simple technology, but cursed with unbelievable magic and powerful
warlocks. Thus is the world of The Spaces Between. Zhy, the town
drunk, finds himself on a journey with a brazen mercenary and an
uppity mage. They are followed by an idiot man-child, listening to
voices in his head. As they creep closer to their stated goal, each
man realizes he's only a pawn in a scheme: A scheme concocted by
one of the travelers. A drunkard's journey will begin with laughter
and end in misery.
Every winter between 1836 to 1879 small wooden boats left the bays
of southwest Western Australia to hunt for migrating Humpback and
Right whales.
A Discography bringing together recordings that could be considered
part of the African-American musical experience and that played
some part in the emergence of blues and jazz music. African musical
forms have been considered of primarily importance yet there has
been little attempt to bring together the recorded evidence from
West Africa that might provide the necessary background for the
development of African-American musical forms. In addition, once in
the United States the recordings of former slaves giving their
views and singing their songs have been included to add to this
account. Amazingly, it was not until the 1930s that it was thought
important enough to record their voices for posterity. Furthermore,
there are field recordings from the Caribbean basin, and
especially, those related to the religious rituals of Voodoo with
its undoubted connection to Africa and its transmission to the
United States. All of these features give a more complete view of
the African American musical experience.
Calypso, with its richly diverse cultural heritage, was the most
significant Caribbean musical form from World War I to Trinidad and
Tobago Independence in 1962. Though wildly popular in mid-1950s
America, Calypso--along with other music from ""the island of the
hummingbird""--has been largely neglected or forgotten. This
first-ever discography of the first 50 years of Trinidadian music
includes all the major artists, as well as many unknowns.
Chronological entries for 78 rpm recordings give bibliographical
references, periodicals and websites and the recording location.
Rare field recordings are catalogued for the first time, including
East Indian and Muslim community performances and Shango and Voodoo
rites. Appendices give 10-inch LP (78 rpm), 12-inch LP (33 1?3
rpm), extended play and 7-inch single listings. Non-commercial
field recordings, radio broadcasts and initially unissued sessions
also are listed. The influence of Trinidadian music on film, and
the ""Calypso craze"" are discussed. Audio sources are provided.
Indexes list individual artists and groups, titles and labels.
This annotated discography covers the first 50 years of audio
recordings by black artists in chronological order, music made in
the ""acoustic era"" of recording technology. The book has
cross-referenced bibliographical information on recording sessions,
including audio sources for extant material, and appendices on
field recordings; Caribbean, Mexican and South American recordings;
piano rolls performed by black artists; and a filmography detailing
the visual record of black performing artists from the period.
Indexes contain all featured artists, titles recorded and labels.
This book explores the historical and archaeological evidence of
the relationships between a coastal community and the shipwrecks
that have occurred along the southern Australian shoreline over the
last 160 years. It moves beyond a focus on shipwrecks as events and
shows the short and long term economic, social and symbolic
significance of wrecks and strandings to the people on the
shoreline. This volume draws on extensive oral histories,
documentary and archaeological research to examine the tensions
within the community, negotiating its way between its roles as
shipwreck saviours and salvors.
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