The Matter of Death : Space, Place and Materiality /

This collection opens up spaces where lives end, bodies are disposed of and memories generated: hospitals, hospices, care homes, coroners' courts, funeral premises, cemeteries, roadsides, the spirit world. Using material culture studies it illuminates the ways human beings make meaningful the c...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Hockey, Jenny (Editor), Komaromy, Carol (Editor), Woodthorpe, Kate (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Subjects:	Social Sciences. Anthropology. Cultural Anthropology. Medical Sociology. Nature Conservation. Social Policy. Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging. Ethnology. Nature conservation. Social medicine. Social policy. Social sciences. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

The matter of death : space, place and materiality /

Published 2010

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