TY - BOOK AU - Dawdy,Shannon Lee AU - Kneese,Tamara TI - The new death: mortality and death care in the twenty-first century T2 - School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series SN - 9780826363466 AV - GT3190 U1 - 306.9 23/eng/20220418 PY - 2022/// CY - Santa Fe, Albuquerque PB - School for Advanced Research Press, University of New Mexico Press KW - Death KW - Death care industry KW - 21st century KW - Funeral rites and ceremonies KW - Mourning customs KW - Mortality KW - Social aspects KW - Mort KW - Mortalit�e KW - Aspect social KW - 21e si�ecle KW - Industrie fun�eraire KW - Fun�erailles KW - Rites et c�er�emonies KW - Deuil KW - Coutumes KW - deaths KW - aat KW - mortality KW - fast KW - Essays KW - lcgft N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction; Shannon Lee Dawdy and Tamara Kneese --; Terminality : technoscientific eschatology in the Anthropocene; Abou Farman --; Old men, young blood : transhumanism and the promise and peril of immortality; Jenny Huberman --; A responsible death : valuing life from mortality tables to wearables; Tamara Kneese --; Deathnography : writing, reading, and radical mourning; Casey Golomski --; "For the one life we have" : temporalities of the humanist funeral in Britain; Matthew Engelke --; Loss in/of the business of black funerals; LaShaya Howie --; Cuddling death : exploring the materiality of reproductive loss; Stephanie Schiavenato --; The haptics of grief ; a taxonomy of touch in death care; Margaret Schwartz --; The embalmer's magic; Shannon Lee Dawdy --; To bear a corpse : home funerals and epistemic cultures in US death care; Philip R. Olson --; Making a living from death : Chinese state funeral workers under the market economy; Huwy-min Lucia Liu --; Grief transformed : new rituals in a Singaporean Chinese funeral parlor; Ruth E. Toulson --; Commentary : the new death; Ellen Badone --; Atoms, star dust, and fungi : death and secular eschatologies; Anya Bernstein N2 - "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."-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=3198992 ER -