The matter of death
Subtitle: space, place and materiality
By: edited by Jenny Hockey, Carol Komaromy and Kate Woodthorpe
Contributors: Hockey, Jennifer Lorna; Komaromy, Carol, 1948-; Woodthorpe, Kate
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780230224162
Subjects: Ruimte (algemeen); Dood; Death; Congresses; Materie
Notes: "This collection has its roots in the Social Aspects of Death, Dying and Bereavement Symposium held in Sheffield in November 2006."--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-253) and index.
Table of contents: title: Materializing absence, Jenny Hockey, Carol Komaromy and Kate Woodthorpe; title: Never say die: CPR in hospital space, Susie Page; title: Making hospice space, Ken Worpole; title: Dying spaces in dying places, Carol Komaromy; title: The materialities of absence after stillbirth: historical perspectives, Jan Bleyen; title: Distributed personhood and the transformation of agency: an anthropological perspective on inquests, Susan Langer; title: Behind closed doors? corpses and mourners in English and American funeral premises, Sheila Harper; title: Private grief in public spaces: interpreting memorialisation in the contemporary cemetary, Kate Woodthorpe; title: Wandering lines and cul-de-sacs: trajectories of ashes in the United Kingdom, Leonie Kellaher, Jenny Hockey and David Prendergast; title: Natural burial: the de-materialising of death?, Andy Clayden, Jenny Hockey and Mark Powell; title: What will the neighbours say? reactions to field and garden burial, Tony Walter and Clare Gittings; title: Memorialising the suicide victim: "walking the walk," Caroline Simone; title: Potent reminders: an examination of responses to roadside memorials in Ireland, Una McConville and Regina McQuillan; title: Geographies of the spirit world, Douglas J. Davies; title: Recovering presence, Jenny Hockey, Carol Komaromy and Kate Woodthorpe.