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Zusatztext 'Offering insights into the one certainty of human life! this exploration of practices related to death holds a fascination that proved irresistible.'Anthropology in Action'It is a book that was waiting to be written.'Bereavement Care '[The authors] offer a wide-ranging consideration of death! memory and the material world and the sociocultural processes by which they are understood and linked.'Choice Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Hallam Director of Cultural History,University of Aberdeen Jenny Hockey Senior Lecturer in the School of Comparative and Applied Social Sciences, University of Hull Klappentext - 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? Obj Zusammenfassung - 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? Obj Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Introduction: Remembering as Cultural Process 2 Figuring Memory: Metaphors, Bodies and Material Objects 3 Time, Death and Memory 4 Spaces of Death and Memory 5 Memories Materializing: Restless Deaths 6 Visualizing death: Making Memories from Body to Image 7 Death Writing: Material Inscription and Memories 8 Ritualizing Death: Embodied Memories 9 Memories and Endings