Spontaneous shrines and the public memorialization of death / edited by Jack Santino.

Other author Santino, Jack.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Descriptionviii, 358 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Supplemental ContentContributor biographical information
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

Contents Performative commemoratives : spontaneous shrines and the public memorialization of death / Jack Santino -- Communicative commemoration and graveside shrines : Princess Diana, Jim Morrison, my "bro" Max, and Boogs the cat / Jeannie Banks Thomas -- Mourning in protest : spontaneous memorials and the sacralization of public space / Harriet F. Senie -- "We'll watch out for Liza and the kids" : spontaneous memorials and personal response at the Pentagon, 2001 / Margaret R. Yocom -- Oh did you see the ashes come thickly falling down? Poems posted in the wake of September 11 / Steve Zeitlin -- Louisiana roadside memorials : negotiating an emerging tradition / Maida Owens -- "Like a trace" : the spontaneous shrine as a cultural expression of grief / Hege Westgaard -- A memorial wall in Philadelphia / Jonathan Lohman -- Twelve Aggie angels : content analysis of the spontaneous shrines following the 1999 bonfire collapse at Texas A&M University / Sylvia Grider -- "The call of the ice" : tragedy and vernacular responses of resistance, heroic reconstruction, and reclamation / Diane E. Goldstein and Diane Tye -- The missing and photography : the uses and misuse of globalization / Ariel Dorfman -- El dia de los muertos in the USA : cultural ritual as political communication / Regina Marchi -- Signifying places of atrocity / Ralph Hartley -- Forty years of conflict : state, church, and spontaneous representation of massacres and murder in Guatemala / Matthew J. Taylor and Michael K. Steinberg -- Trains of workers, trains of death : some reflections after the March 11 attacks in Madrid / Cristina Sánchez-Carretero.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2006276708
ISBN1403968888 (hbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks GT3390 .S66 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold