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Medical jurisprudence. --- Undertakers and undertaking. --- Mortuary Practice. --- Forensic Medicine.

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Examining the compelling and often poignant connection between women and the material culture of death, this collection focuses on the objects women make, the images they keep, the practices they use or are responsible for, and the places they inhabit and construct through ritual and custom. Womens material practices, ranging from wearing mourning jewelry to dressing the dead, stitching memorial samplers to constructing skull boxes, collecting funeral programs to collecting and studying diseased hearts, making and collecting taxidermies, and making sculptures honoring the death, are explored in this collection as well as womens affective responses and sentimental labor that mark their expected and unexpected participation in the social practices surrounding death and the dead. The largely invisible work involved in commemorating and constructing narratives and memorials about the dead-from family members and friends to national figures-calls attention to the role women as memory keepers for families, local communities, and the nation. Women have tended to work collaboratively, making, collecting, and sharing objects that conveyed sentiments about the deceased, whether human or animal, as well as the identity of mourners. Death is about loss, and many of the mourning practices that women have traditionally and are currently engaged in are about dealing with private grief and public loss as well as working to mitigate the more general anxiety that death engenders about the impermanence of life.

History of civilization --- women [female humans] --- Death --- Memorialization. --- Women and death --- Mort --- Commémorations --- Femmes et mort --- Social aspects. --- Aspect social --- Women and death. --- Grief. --- Women --- Attitude to Death. --- Funeral Rites. --- 7.01 --- 7.049 --- Gender Studies --- Kunsttheorie ; over de dood ; het rouwen ; rouw --- Grafmonumenten ; graftombes ; van of door vrouwen --- Sterven ; dood ; socio-culturele aspecten --- Mortuary Customs --- Custom, Mortuary --- Customs, Mortuary --- Funeral Rite --- Mortuary Custom --- Rite, Funeral --- Rites, Funeral --- Attitudes to Death --- Death, Attitude to --- Death, Attitudes to --- Mourning --- Griefs --- Mournings --- Bereavement --- Death and women --- Memorialisation --- Memorials --- psychology. --- Kunst ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- Iconografie ; verschillende onderwerpen --- Commémorations --- Memorialization --- Grief --- Attitude to Death --- Funeral Rites --- Social aspects --- psychology --- dood --- cultuurgeschiedenis --- vrouwengeschiedenis

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How human technological interventions into death and the dead body since the nineteenth century have had a profound impact on today's (and future) end-of-life and human mortality realities. As Director of the Centre for Death and Society, the world's only interdisciplinary studies centre dedicated to researching death, dying, and the dead body, and the son of an American Funeral Director who grew up in the funeral industry, I am uniquely positioned to author a new book on the human corpse and technology. Death and the dead body are both extremely popular topics, and the books being currently published are tapping into that popular appeal. Most of these books, however, cover topics that remain perennially discussed. Indeed, it is striking how so many of the current books on death and dying reflect the same issues raised during the 1970's, a decade during which Publisher's Weekly enthusiastically told its readers "Death is now selling books!" A quick snapshot of some current(ish) death, dying, and dead body books includes, but is certainly not limited to: Mary Roach's Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, which was published in 2003 but remains widely read thirteen-years later; more recent books, such as Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, Caitlin Doughty's Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, and Brandy Schillace's Death's Summer Coat have all tapped into this popular genre. Books by academic authors such as Margaret Schwartz's Dead Matter and Thomas Laqueur's The Work of the Dead present historical and cultural contexts that are equally important. My listing of texts could exceed several pages but what is important about most contemporary death books is that the texts rarely give the history of publishing books on death much analysis. If any death-topic authors' names appear they are usually Jessica Mitford, Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, and Ernest Becker. Sigmund Freud sometimes appears (in connection to Becker) but on the whole these specific authors represent a fraction of the 'death canon.' What I am writing improves on these texts by presenting readers with a more complex and interesting history than most books on death, dying, and the dead body currently pursue. In a nutshell I present a longer view on how human technological interventions into death and the dead body since the nineteenth century have had a profound impact on today's (and future) end-of-life and human mortality realities. It is too easy to sum up most current books on death, dying, and the dead body by simply saying, "We've been here before" - but it's also accurate. What my book presents are new and important ways to critically understand both the distant and recent past of human death, e.g., nineteenth century postmortem photography's crucial relationship to twentieth century life extension technology. Ironically, these nineteenth century historical records are often archived and accessible (and very well presented in MIT Press's Secure the Shadow by Jay Ruby), whereas web based material from twenty, even ten-years-ago often disappears before it can be analyzed and discussed. The key point for any book being written about death and dying today is that it really needs to understand and articulate how popular interest in death didn't emerge from nowhere. The current popularity of death, dying, and the dead body is the result of many individuals working in many different fields over the last two centuries as both academics and practitioners. More than anything the collective twenty-first century discourse on death needs to have its dominant narratives challenged and pushed in new directions. This book takes on that challenge and re-defines death, dying, and the dead body for readers by opening up human mortality's complicated and often vexing history.

Mortuary Practice --- Technology --- Attitude to Death --- Funeral Rites --- Cadaver --- Thanatology --- history --- Death --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Dead --- History --- Psychological aspects --- Undertakers and undertaking --- History. --- Sociology of health --- Pathological anatomy and histology --- Funeral directors --- Funeral industry --- Morticians --- Mortuary practice --- Death care industry --- Funeral homes

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Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Skeletal remains (Archaeology) --- Human skeleton --- Primate remains (Archaeology) --- Funerals --- Mortuary ceremonies --- Obsequies --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Burial --- Cremation --- Cryomation --- Dead --- Mourning customs --- Mathematical models --- Bioarchaeology --- Human remains (Archaeology). --- Mathematical models.

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Geography --- Geography. --- Sociale geografie. --- tijdschriften lerarenopleiding --- Geography - Periodicals --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history --- Factor, Geographic --- Factors, Geographic --- Geographic Factor --- Geographic Factors --- Geography, Human --- Human Geography --- Géographie --- Géographie. --- geography. --- Cultural heritage. --- Economic sectors --- Art --- Technology --- Material culture. --- Politics and Government --- Initiation --- Death --- Race relations --- Anthropology. --- Tourism. --- Rock art --- Painting. --- Stone. --- National symbols and events --- Bicentennial, 1988. --- Circumcision. --- Mortuary --- funeral ceremonies --- Mortuary objects --- Poles. --- Attitudes. --- Australia. --- Arnhem Land (NT) --- Tiwi Islands (NT SC52-15, SC52-16) --- Groote Eylandt (NT Gulf Islands SD53-07, SD53-08)