B3Kat (1/1)

Speichern in

American Afterlives

Reinventing Death in the Twenty-First Century
Verfasser: Dawdy, Shannon Lee
978-0-691-22845-7

Computerdatei

(Services, Fernleihe und weitere eXtras)

Bestand im BVB:

Volltext-Links:

Zugang für Benutzer von: Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
Zugang für Benutzer von: Hochschulbibliothek Coburg
Zugang für Benutzer von: Hochschulbibliothek Kempten
Zugang für Benutzer von: Hochschulbibliothek Landshut
Zugang für Benutzer von: Technische Hochschule Aschaffenburg, Hochschulbibliothek
Zugang für Benutzer von: Technische Hochschule Augsburg, Hochschulbibliothek
Zugang für Benutzer von: Universitätsbibliothek Bamberg
Zugang für Benutzer von: Universitätsbibliothek Passau

Fach:

Ethnologie

Permalink:

https://gateway-bayern.de/BV047701268

Letzte Änderung: 21.01.2022

Titel:	American Afterlives
Untertitel:	Reinventing Death in the Twenty-First Century
URL:	https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691228457
URL Erlt Interna:	Verlag
URL Erlt Info:	URL des Erstveröffentlichers
Erläuterung :	Volltext
Von:	Shannon Lee Dawdy
ISBN:	978-0-691-22845-7
Erscheinungsort:	Princeton, NJ
Verlag:	Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsjahr:	[2022]
Erscheinungsjahr:	© 2021
DOI:	10.1515/9780691228457
Umfang:	1 Online-Ressource (272 pages)
Details:	20 b/w illus
Fußnote :	Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 10. Jan 2022)
Abstract:	A mesmerizing trip across America to investigate the changing face of death in contemporary lifeDeath 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
Sprache:	eng
Fußnote :	In English
Weitere Schlagwörter :	Death; Economic aspects; United States; Death; Social aspects; United States; Funeral rites and ceremonies; United States

MARC-Felder:

LEADER	00000nmm a2200000zc 4500
001	BV047701268
003	DE-604
007	cr\|uuu---uuuuu
008	220121s2022 \|\|\|\| o\|\|u\| \|\|\|\|\|\|eng d
020			\|a 9780691228457 \|9 978-0-691-22845-7
024	7		\|a 10.1515/9780691228457 \|2 doi
035			\|a (ZDB-23-DGG)9780691228457
035			\|a (OCoLC)1294806231
035			\|a (DE-599)BVBBV047701268
040			\|a DE-604 \|b ger \|e rda
041	0		\|a eng
049			\|a DE-1043 \|a DE-1046 \|a DE-858 \|a DE-Aug4 \|a DE-859 \|a DE-860 \|a DE-473 \|a DE-739
082	0		\|a 393 \|2 23
100	1		\|a Dawdy, Shannon Lee \|e Verfasser \|4 aut
245	1	0	\|a American Afterlives \|b Reinventing Death in the Twenty-First Century \|c Shannon Lee Dawdy
264		1	\|a Princeton, NJ \|b Princeton University Press \|c [2022]
264		4	\|c © 2021
300			\|a 1 Online-Ressource (272 pages) \|b 20 b/w illus
336			\|b txt \|2 rdacontent
337			\|b c \|2 rdamedia
338			\|b cr \|2 rdacarrier
500			\|a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 10. Jan 2022)
520			\|a A mesmerizing trip across America to investigate the changing face of death in contemporary lifeDeath 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
546			\|a In English
650		7	\|a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death&Dying \|2 bisacsh
650		4	\|a Death \|x Economic aspects \|z United States
650		4	\|a Death \|x Social aspects \|z United States
650		4	\|a Funeral rites and ceremonies \|z United States
856	4	0	\|u https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691228457 \|x Verlag \|z URL des Erstveröffentlichers \|3 Volltext
912			\|a ZDB-23-DGG
966	e		\|u https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691228457 \|l DE-1046 \|p ZDB-23-DGG \|q FAW_PDA_DGG \|x Verlag \|3 Volltext
966	e		\|u https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691228457 \|l DE-1043 \|p ZDB-23-DGG \|q FAB_PDA_DGG \|x Verlag \|3 Volltext
966	e		\|u https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691228457 \|l DE-858 \|p ZDB-23-DGG \|q FCO_PDA_DGG \|x Verlag \|3 Volltext
966	e		\|u https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691228457 \|l DE-Aug4 \|p ZDB-23-DGG \|q FHA_PDA_DGG \|x Verlag \|3 Volltext
966	e		\|u https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691228457 \|l DE-859 \|p ZDB-23-DGG \|q FKE_PDA_DGG \|x Verlag \|3 Volltext
966	e		\|u https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691228457 \|l DE-860 \|p ZDB-23-DGG \|q FLA_PDA_DGG \|x Verlag \|3 Volltext
966	e		\|u https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691228457 \|l DE-739 \|p ZDB-23-DGG \|q UPA_PDA_DGG \|x Verlag \|3 Volltext
966	e		\|u https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691228457 \|l DE-473 \|p ZDB-23-DGG \|q UBG_PDA_DGG \|x Verlag \|3 Volltext
999			\|a oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-033085183

American Afterlives; Reinventing Death in the Twenty-First Century

B3Kat (1/1)

American Afterlives