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Shannon Lee Dawdy American Afterlives (Hardback)
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- Book Title
- American Afterlives : Reinventing Death in the Twenty-First Century
- Publication Name
- American Afterlives
- Title
- American Afterlives
- Subtitle
- Reinventing Death in the Twenty-First Century
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 0691210640
- EAN
- 9780691210643
- ISBN
- 9780691210643
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Genre
- Social Science
- Topic
- Death & Dying, Sociology / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Customs & Traditions
- Release Year
- 2021
- Release Date
- 19/10/2021
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Item Length
- 8.8in
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Item Width
- 5.9in
- Item Weight
- 17.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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A mesmerizing trip across America to investigate the changing face of death in contemporary life Death in the United States is undergoing a quiet revolution. You can have your body frozen, dissected, composted, dissolved, or tanned. Your family can incorporate your remains into jewelry, shotgun shells, paperweights, and artwork. Cremations have more than doubled, and DIY home funerals and green burials are on the rise. American Afterlives is Shannon Lee Dawdy's lyrical and compassionate account of changing death practices in America as people face their own mortality and search for a different kind of afterlife. As an anthropologist and archaeologist, Dawdy knows that how a society treats its dead yields powerful clues about its beliefs and values. As someone who has experienced loss herself, she knows there is no way to tell this story without also reexamining her own views about death and dying. In this meditative and gently humorous book, Dawdy embarks on a transformative journey across the United States, talking to funeral directors, death-care entrepreneurs, designers, cemetery owners, death doulas, and ordinary people from all walks of life. What she discovers is that, by reinventing death, Americans are reworking their ideas about personhood, ritual, and connection across generations. She also confronts the seeming contradiction that American death is becoming at the same time more materialistic and more spiritual. Written in conjunction with a documentary film project, American Afterlives features images by cinematographer Daniel Zox that provide their own testament to our rapidly changing attitudes toward death and the afterlife.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691210640
ISBN-13
9780691210643
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23050086526
Product Key Features
Book Title
American Afterlives : Reinventing Death in the Twenty-First Century
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Death & Dying, Sociology / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Customs & Traditions
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Social Science
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.8in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
5.9in
Item Weight
17.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Gt3150.D36 2021
Reviews
"A fast-moving look at what happens to bodies today--embalming, cremation, gravestones, pendants with ashes, etc. She sees no lack of faith but more 'eclectic, syncretic, speculative, woo-woo, and whackadoo belief.'" ---Marvin Olasky, World, "Fascinating. . . . American Afterlives describes an extraordinary array of approaches to celebrate -- and remember -- the dead." ---Glenn C. Altschuler, Psychology Today, "A personable book notable for its affection for life, the richness of American culture and the brief, baffling experience of living as a human." ---Algernon D'Ammassa, Las Cruces Sun-News, Finalist for the PROSE Award in Cultural Anthropology and Sociology, Association of American Publishers, "It's hard to make death sexy, but Shannon Lee Dawdy manages to do just that in her fascinating new book about changing practices in American death care and what they can tell us about American society today. . . . Dawdy's style is playful and somewhat experimental. . . . [A] a highly imaginative, engrossing book about a difficult topic." ---Mara Buchbinder, American Ethnologist
Copyright Date
2021
Lccn
2021-008929
Dewey Decimal
393.0973
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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