The Matter of Death: Space, Place and Materiality

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Materialising Absence....Pages 1-18
Never Say Die: CPR in Hospital Space....Pages 19-34
Making Hospice Space....Pages 35-51
Dying Spaces in Dying Places....Pages 52-68
The Materialities of Absence after Stillbirth: Historical Perspectives....Pages 69-84
Distributed Personhood and the Transformation of Agency: An Anthropological Perspective on Inquests....Pages 85-99
Behind Closed Doors? Corpses and Mourners in English and American Funeral Premises....Pages 100-116
Private Grief in Public Spaces: Interpreting Memorialisation in the Contemporary Cemetery....Pages 117-132
Wandering Lines and Cul-de-sacs: Trajectories of Ashes in the United Kingdom....Pages 133-147
Natural Burial: The De-materialising of Death?....Pages 148-164
What Will the Neighbours Say? Reactions to Field and Garden Burial....Pages 165-177
Memorialising the Suicide Victim: ‘Walking the Walk’....Pages 178-194
Potent Reminders: An Examination of Responses to Roadside Memorials in Ireland....Pages 195-207
Geographies of the Spirit World....Pages 208-222
Recovering Presence....Pages 223-234
Back Matter....Pages 235-270