American Afterlives : : Reinventing Death in the Twenty-First Century / / Shannon Lee Dawdy.

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 shell...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t CONTENTS --   |t IMAGES --   |t PREFACE --   |t ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --   |t CHAP T ER 1 The Hole --   |t CHAPTER 2 Flesh --   |t CHAPTER 3 Bones --   |t CHAPTER 4 Dirt --   |t CHAPTER 5 Spirit --   |t Epilogue --   |t NOTES --   |t REFERENCES --   |t INDEX 
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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. 
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588 0 |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) 
650 0 |a Death  |x Economic aspects  |z United States. 
650 0 |a Death  |x Social aspects  |z United States. 
650 0 |a Funeral rites and ceremonies  |z United States. 
650 7 |a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying.  |2 bisacsh 
653 |a Align (company). 
653 |a Ambrose Bierce. 
653 |a Ancient Egypt. 
653 |a Apotheosis. 
653 |a Archaeology. 
653 |a Aunt. 
653 |a Bone china. 
653 |a Buddhism. 
653 |a Burial. 
653 |a California. 
653 |a Carbon footprint. 
653 |a Casket. 
653 |a Cemetery. 
653 |a Coffin. 
653 |a Commodification. 
653 |a Conservative Judaism. 
653 |a Convenience. 
653 |a Cremation. 
653 |a Crematory. 
653 |a Cryonics. 
653 |a Customer. 
653 |a Day of the Dead. 
653 |a Death mask. 
653 |a Death. 
653 |a Disenchantment. 
653 |a Eastern philosophy. 
653 |a Egyptomania. 
653 |a Embalming chemicals. 
653 |a Embalming. 
653 |a Embrace Life. 
653 |a Espresso machine. 
653 |a Euthanasia. 
653 |a Fantasy coffin. 
653 |a Field hospital. 
653 |a Forestry. 
653 |a Foyer. 
653 |a Friendship. 
653 |a Funeral director. 
653 |a Funeral home. 
653 |a Geologist. 
653 |a Grandparent. 
653 |a Grief. 
653 |a Gumball machine. 
653 |a Headstone. 
653 |a His Family. 
653 |a Homegoing. 
653 |a Hospice. 
653 |a Hospital bed. 
653 |a Humility. 
653 |a Iconography. 
653 |a In Death. 
653 |a Indulgence. 
653 |a Islamic funeral. 
653 |a John Doe. 
653 |a Kübler-Ross model. 
653 |a LifeGem. 
653 |a Liminality. 
653 |a Magical thinking. 
653 |a Mass media. 
653 |a Mass production. 
653 |a Morgue. 
653 |a Mourner. 
653 |a Mourning. 
653 |a Ms. 
653 |a Natural burial. 
653 |a Occult. 
653 |a Overcrowding. 
653 |a Ownership. 
653 |a Post-mortem photography. 
653 |a Pottery. 
653 |a Prescription bottle. 
653 |a Protestantism. 
653 |a Puritans. 
653 |a Real property. 
653 |a Reality television. 
653 |a Religion. 
653 |a Rigor mortis. 
653 |a Romanticism. 
653 |a Shamanism. 
653 |a Sharon Osbourne. 
653 |a Social control. 
653 |a Social death. 
653 |a Social movement. 
653 |a Soft tissue. 
653 |a Special Period. 
653 |a Taphophobia. 
653 |a Tattoo. 
653 |a Terminal illness. 
653 |a Thanatology. 
653 |a The American Way of Death. 
653 |a The Denial of Death. 
653 |a The Easy Way. 
653 |a The Loved One. 
653 |a Tidbit. 
653 |a Trowel. 
653 |a Unmarked grave. 
653 |a Value (economics). 
653 |a Viewing (funeral). 
653 |a Willy Wonka. 
653 |a Zombie. 
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