The Vital Dead

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  • The Vital Dead Book Detail

  • Author : Alison Bell
  • Release Date : 2023-01-10
  • Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
  • Genre : Social Science
  • Pages : 289
  • ISBN 13 : 1621906965
  • File Size : 62,62 MB
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The Vital Dead by Alison Bell PDF Summary

Book Description: "This book builds on recent anthropological work to explore the social and cultural dynamics of cemetery practice and its transformation over generations in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. Anthropologist Alison Bell finds that people are using material culture-images and epitaphs on grave markers, as well as objects they leave on graves-to assert and maintain relationships and fight against alienation. She draws on fieldwork, interviews, archival sources, and disciplinary insights to show how cemeteries both reveal and participate in the grassroots cultural work of crafting social connections, assessing the transcendental durability of the deceased person, and asserting particular cultural values. The book's chapters range across cemetery types, focusing on African American burials, grave sites of institutionalized individuals, and modern community memorials"--

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