Corpse Encounters
An Aesthetics of Death
This book takes a critical glance at the ways in which we attend to the corpse, tracing a trajectory from encounter toward considering options for disposal: veneered mortuary internment, green burial and its attendant rot, cremation and alkaline hydrolysis, donation and display, and ecological burial. Through tracing the possible futures of the dead that haunt the living, through both the stories that we tell and physical manifestations following the end of life, we expose the workings of aesthetics that shape corpses, as well as the ways in which corpses spill over, resisting aestheticization. This book creates a space for ritualized practic…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Pielak, Chase
- ISBN: 978-1-4985-4393-4
- EAN: 9781498543934
- Produktnummer: 27110243
- Verlag: Lexington Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 206 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.6 cm 477 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 477
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