Hallam, Elizabeth, 1967-

Death, memory, and material culture / Elizabeth Hallam and Jenny Hockey.

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2001.

xiii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Materializing culture, 1460-3349

"How do the living maintain ongoing relationships with the dead in Western societies? How have the residual belongings of the dead been used to evoke memories? Why has the body and its material environment remained so important in memory-making?"
"Objects, images, practices, and places remind us of the deaths of others and our own mortality. At the time of death, embodied persons disappear from view, their relationships with others come under threat and their influence may cease. Emotionally, socially, politically, much is at stake at the time of death. In this context, memories and memory-making can be highly charged, and often provide the dead with a social presence amongst the living. Memories of the dead are bulwark against the terror of forgetting, as well as an inescapable outcome of a life's ending."
"Objects in attics, gardens, museums, streets and cemeteries can tell us much about the processes of remembering. This book develops perspectives in anthropology and cultural history to reveal the importance of material objects in experiences of grief, mourning, and memorializing. Far from being 'invisible', the authors show how past generations, dead friends and lovers remain manifest - through well-worn garments, letters, photographs, flowers, residual drops of perfume, funerary sculpture. Tracing the rituals, gestures and materials that have been used to shape and preserve memories of personal loss, Hallam and Hockey show how material culture provides the deceased with a powerful presence within the here and now."--Jacket.

1859733743 (cloth)
9781859733745 (cloth)
1859733794 (pbk.)
9781859733790 (pbk.)

Death.
Memory.
Memorials.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Bereavement.
Group identity.
Memorialization.
Social Identification
Funeral Rites
Mort.
Commémorations.
Funérailles Rites et cérémonies.
Deuil.
Identité collective.
deaths.
funerals.
mourning.
group identity.
commemorations (events)
71.57 immaterial culture (sociology)
Tod
Erinnerung
Andenken
Brauch
Kultur
Totenkult
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Sachkultur
Kultursoziologie
Kulturanthropologie
Sozialanthropologie
Dood.
Herinneringen.
Culturele aspecten.

Hockey, Jennifer Lorna.
Materializing culture.

Death, memory & material culture

Location: Library main 315961
Call No.: 315961
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