The Materiality Of Mourning

Author : Zahra Newby
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351127640
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Materiality of Mourning written by Zahra Newby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tangible remains play an important role in our relationships with the dead; they are pivotal to how we remember, mourn and grieve. The chapters in this volume analyse a diverse range of objects and their role in the processes of grief and mourning, with contributions by scholars in anthropology, history, fashion, thanatology, religious studies, archaeology, classics, sociology, and political science. The book brings together consideration of emotions, memory and material agency to inform a deeper understanding of the specific roles played by objects in funerary contexts across historical and contemporary societies.

Author : Mary Schneider Enriquez
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300222513
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doris Salcedo written by Mary Schneider Enriquez and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Context: Violence and Contemporary Art in Colombia -- Salcedo's Influences: Artists, Works, Practices -- The Six Visual Strategies -- Organic and Ephemeral: Materiality in Salcedo's Most Recent Works -- Inherent Vice and the Ship of Theseus / Narayan Khandekar -- Artist Biography and Exhibition History

Author : Mary Schneider Enriquez
Publisher : Harvard Art Museums
ISBN 13 : 9781891771699
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doris Salcedo written by Mary Schneider Enriquez and published by Harvard Art Museums. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This publication accompanies the exhibition Doris Salcedo: The Materiality of Mourning, on view at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, from November 4, 2016 through April 9, 2017."

Author : BethFowkes Tobin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135153680X
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and the Material Culture of Death written by BethFowkes Tobin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the compelling and often poignant connection between women and the material culture of death, this collection focuses on the objects women make, the images they keep, the practices they use or are responsible for, and the places they inhabit and construct through ritual and custom. Women?s material practices, ranging from wearing mourning jewelry to dressing the dead, stitching memorial samplers to constructing skull boxes, collecting funeral programs to collecting and studying diseased hearts, making and collecting taxidermies, and making sculptures honoring the death, are explored in this collection as well as women?s affective responses and sentimental labor that mark their expected and unexpected participation in the social practices surrounding death and the dead. The largely invisible work involved in commemorating and constructing narratives and memorials about the dead-from family members and friends to national figures-calls attention to the role women as memory keepers for families, local communities, and the nation. Women have tended to work collaboratively, making, collecting, and sharing objects that conveyed sentiments about the deceased, whether human or animal, as well as the identity of mourners. Death is about loss, and many of the mourning practices that women have traditionally and are currently engaged in are about dealing with private grief and public loss as well as working to mitigate the more general anxiety that death engenders about the impermanence of life.

Author : Christoph Klaus Streb
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000460800
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Materiality and Spatiality of Death, Burial and Commemoration written by Christoph Klaus Streb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death, dying and burial produce artefacts and occur in spatial contexts. The interplay between such materiality and the bereaved who commemorate the dead yields interpretations and creates meanings that can change over time. Materiality is more than simple matter, void of meaning or relevance. The apparent inanimate has meaning. It is charged with significance, has symbolic and interpretative value—perhaps a form of selfhood, which originates from the interaction with the animate. In our case, gravestones, bodily remains and the spatial order of the cemetery are explored for their material agency and relational constellations with human perceptions and actions. Consciously and unconsciously, by interacting with such materiality, one is creating meaning, while materiality retroactively provides a form of agency. Spatiality provides more than a mere context: it permits and shapes such interaction. Thus, artefacts, mementos and memorials are exteriorised, materialised, and spatialized forms of human activity: they can be understood as cultural forms, the function of which is to sustain social life. However, they are also the medium through which values, ideas and criteria of social distinction are reproduced, legitimised, or transformed. This book will explore this interplay by going beyond the consideration of simple grave artefacts on the one hand and graveyards as a space on the other hand, to examine the specific interrelationships between materiality, spatiality, the living, and the dead. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Mortality.

Author : Isaias Rojas-Perez
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 150360263X
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mourning Remains written by Isaias Rojas-Perez and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mourning Remains examines the attempts to find, recover, and identify the bodies of Peruvians who were disappeared during the 1980s and 1990s counterinsurgency campaign in Peru's central southern Andes. Isaias Rojas-Perez explores the lives and political engagement of elderly Quechua mothers as they attempt to mourn and seek recognition for their kin. Of the estimated 16,000 Peruvians disappeared during the conflict, only the bodies of 3,202 victims have been located, and only 1,833 identified. The rest remain unknown or unfound, scattered across the country and often shattered beyond recognition. Rojas-Perez examines how, in the face of the state's failure to account for their missing dead, the mothers rearrange senses of community, belonging, authority, and the human to bring the disappeared back into being through everyday practices of mourning and memorialization. Mourning Remains reveals how collective mourning becomes a political escape from the state's project of governing past death and how the dead can help secure the future of the body politic.

Author : Sophie Seebach
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785338951
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mirrors of Passing written by Sophie Seebach and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without exception, all people are faced with the inevitability of death, a stark fact that has immeasurably shaped societies and individual consciousness for the whole of human history. Mirrors of Passing offers a powerful window into this oldest of human preoccupations by investigating the interrelationships of death, materiality, and temporality across far-flung times and places. Stretching as far back as Ancient Egypt and Greece and moving through present-day locales as diverse as Western Europe, Central Asia, and the Arctic, each of the richly illustrated essays collected here draw on a range of disciplinary insights to explore some of the most fundamental, universal questions that confront us.

Author : European Association of Archaeologists. Meeting
Publisher : BAR International Series
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Materiality of Death written by European Association of Archaeologists. Meeting and published by BAR International Series. This book was released on 2008 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 16 papers presented from an EAA session held at Krakow in 2006, exploring various aspects of the archaeology of death.

Author : Mieke Bal
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226035786
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Of What One Cannot Speak written by Mieke Bal and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doris Salcedo, a Colombian-born artist, addresses the politics of memory and forgetting in work that embraces fraught situations in dangerous places. Noted critic and theorist Mieke Bal narrates between the disciplines of contemporary culture in order to boldly reimagine the role of the visual arts. Both women are pathbreaking figures, globally renowned and widely respected. Doris Salcedo, meet Mieke Bal. In Of What One Cannot Speak, Bal leads us into intimate encounters with Salcedo’s art, encouraging us to consider each work as a “theoretical object” that invites—and demands—certain kinds of considerations about history, death, erasure, and grief. Bal ranges widely through Salcedo’s work, from Salcedo’s Atrabiliarios series—in which the artist uses worn shoes to retrace los desaparecidos (“the disappeared”) from nations like Argentina, Chile, and Colombia—to Shibboleth, Salcedo’s once-in-a-lifetime commission by the Tate Modern, for which she created a rupture, as if by earthquake, that stretched the length of the museum hall’s concrete floor. In each instance, Salcedo’s installations speak for themselves, utilizing household items, human bones, and common domestic architecture to explore the silent spaces between violence, trauma, and identity. Yet Bal draws out even deeper responses to the work, questioning the nature of political art altogether and introducing concepts of metaphor, time, and space in order to contend with Salcedo’s powerful sculptures and installations. An unforgettable fusion of art and essay, Of What One Cannot Speak takes us to the very core of events we are capable of remembering—yet still uncomfortably cannot speak aloud.

Author : Jesse D. Peterson
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529230152
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death’s Social and Material Meaning beyond the Human written by Jesse D. Peterson and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death studies typically focus on the death of humans, overlooking the wider factors involved in social and natural processes around death. This edited volume provides an alternative focus for death studies by looking beyond human death, to reveal the complex interconnections among human and more than human creatures, entities and environments. Bringing together a diverse range of international scholars, the book sheds light on topics which have previously remained at the margins of contemporary death studies and death care cultures. Organised around three themes – Knowledge and Mediation, Care and Remembrance, and Agency and Power – this book pushes the boundaries of death studies to explore death and dying from beyond the perspective of a nature/culture binary.