The materiality of mourning : cross-disciplinary perspectives /

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Other Authors: Newby, Zahra (Editor), Toulson, Ruth E. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2019]
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ISBN:9780815356639
0815356633
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction : emotions and materiality in theory and method / Ruth E. Toulson and Zahra Newby
  • 2. Dead people's clothes : materialising mourning and memory in ancient Rome / Valerie M. Hope
  • 3. Remembering Roland Leighton : uniforms as the materials of memory in World War I / Emily Brayshaw
  • 4. Destroying objects, keeping memories / Eric Venbrux
  • 5. The Grottarossa doll and her mistress : hope and consolation in a Roman tomb / Zahra Newby
  • 6. Talking with a cold grey stone : the life and death of gravestones in contemporary Denmark / Anne Kjæsgaard
  • 7. The face of the deceased : portrait busts in Roman tombs / Helen I. Ackers
  • 8. Enduring grief : images of mourning from the ancient classical world to eighteenth-century Britain / Kate A. Beats
  • 9. The "worth" of grief and the "value" of bodies : managing the civilian corpse in Second World War Britain / Lucy Noakes
  • 10. Fragments of bone and chips of stone : materiality and mourning in a Chinese society / Ruth E. Toulson
  • 11. Sacred rituals of the security state : reclaiming bodies and making relics from Ground Zero / Charlotte Heath-Kelly
  • 12. Why materiality in mourning matters / Michael Brennan
  • 13. The death turn : interdisciplinarity, mourning and material culture / Douglas J. Davies.