The new death : mortality and death care in the twenty-first century /
The new death : mortality and death care in the twenty-first century /
edited by Shannon Lee Dawdy and Tamara Kneese.
- 1 online resource (vii, 360 pages) : illustrations.
- School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series .
- School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Terminality : technoscientific eschatology in the Anthropocene / Old men, young blood : transhumanism and the promise and peril of immortality / A responsible death : valuing life from mortality tables to wearables / Deathnography : writing, reading, and radical mourning / "For the one life we have" : temporalities of the humanist funeral in Britain / Loss in/of the business of black funerals / Cuddling death : exploring the materiality of reproductive loss / The haptics of grief ; a taxonomy of touch in death care / The embalmer's magic / To bear a corpse : home funerals and epistemic cultures in US death care / Making a living from death : Chinese state funeral workers under the market economy / Grief transformed : new rituals in a Singaporean Chinese funeral parlor / Commentary : the new death / Atoms, star dust, and fungi : death and secular eschatologies / Shannon Lee Dawdy and Tamara Kneese -- Abou Farman -- Jenny Huberman -- Tamara Kneese -- Casey Golomski -- Matthew Engelke -- LaShaya Howie -- Stephanie Schiavenato -- Margaret Schwartz -- Shannon Lee Dawdy -- Philip R. Olson -- Huwy-min Lucia Liu -- Ruth E. Toulson -- Ellen Badone -- Anya Bernstein.
"he 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."--
Shannon Lee Dawdy is a professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago. Her fieldwork combines archival, ethnographic, and archaeological methods to understand how objects and landscapes mediate human life. Tamara Kneese is an assistant professor of media studies and the program director of gender and sexualities studies at the University of San Francisco. Her research examines digital cultures, using ethnographic and historical methods to understand emergent practices around labor, love, and loss.
9780826363466 0826363466
2000-2099
Death.
Death care industry--21st century.
Funeral rites and ceremonies--21st century.
Mourning customs.
Mortality.
Death--Social aspects--21st century.
Death
Mortality
Mort.
Mortalit�e.
Mort--Aspect social--21e si�ecle.
Industrie fun�eraire--21e si�ecle.
Fun�erailles--Rites et c�er�emonies--21e si�ecle.
Deuil--Coutumes.
deaths.
mortality.
Death
Death care industry
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Mourning customs
Essays
Essays.
GT3190
306.9 320
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Terminality : technoscientific eschatology in the Anthropocene / Old men, young blood : transhumanism and the promise and peril of immortality / A responsible death : valuing life from mortality tables to wearables / Deathnography : writing, reading, and radical mourning / "For the one life we have" : temporalities of the humanist funeral in Britain / Loss in/of the business of black funerals / Cuddling death : exploring the materiality of reproductive loss / The haptics of grief ; a taxonomy of touch in death care / The embalmer's magic / To bear a corpse : home funerals and epistemic cultures in US death care / Making a living from death : Chinese state funeral workers under the market economy / Grief transformed : new rituals in a Singaporean Chinese funeral parlor / Commentary : the new death / Atoms, star dust, and fungi : death and secular eschatologies / Shannon Lee Dawdy and Tamara Kneese -- Abou Farman -- Jenny Huberman -- Tamara Kneese -- Casey Golomski -- Matthew Engelke -- LaShaya Howie -- Stephanie Schiavenato -- Margaret Schwartz -- Shannon Lee Dawdy -- Philip R. Olson -- Huwy-min Lucia Liu -- Ruth E. Toulson -- Ellen Badone -- Anya Bernstein.
"he 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."--
Shannon Lee Dawdy is a professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago. Her fieldwork combines archival, ethnographic, and archaeological methods to understand how objects and landscapes mediate human life. Tamara Kneese is an assistant professor of media studies and the program director of gender and sexualities studies at the University of San Francisco. Her research examines digital cultures, using ethnographic and historical methods to understand emergent practices around labor, love, and loss.
9780826363466 0826363466
2000-2099
Death.
Death care industry--21st century.
Funeral rites and ceremonies--21st century.
Mourning customs.
Mortality.
Death--Social aspects--21st century.
Death
Mortality
Mort.
Mortalit�e.
Mort--Aspect social--21e si�ecle.
Industrie fun�eraire--21e si�ecle.
Fun�erailles--Rites et c�er�emonies--21e si�ecle.
Deuil--Coutumes.
deaths.
mortality.
Death
Death care industry
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Mourning customs
Essays
Essays.
GT3190
306.9 320