Spontaneous shrines and the public memorialization of death / edited by Jack Santino.
| Other author | Santino, Jack. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. |
| Description | viii, 358 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Contributor biographical information |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Supplemental Content | Table 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2006276708 |
| ISBN | 1403968888 (hbk.) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | GT3390 .S66 2006 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |