The Matter of Death: Space, Place and Materiality

by Kate Woodthorpe and Carol Komaromy

Book Overview

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 challenges of death, dying and bereavement.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349309109
• ISBN13: 9781349309108
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"