Beyond the Body Elizabeth Hallam

Name: Beyond the Body von Elizabeth Hallam
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Zusammenfassung

Presents a new and sophisticated approach to death, dying and bereavement, and the sociology of the body. The authors challenge existing theories that put the body at the centre of identity.

Beyond the Body Zusammenfassung

Beyond the Body: Death and Social Identity Elizabeth Hallam

Beyond the Body presents a new and sophisticated approach to death, dying and bereavement, and the sociology of the body. The authors challenge existing theories that put the body at the centre of identity. They go 'beyond the body' to highlight the persistence of self-identity even when the body itself has been disposed of or is missing.
Chapters draw together a wide range of empirical data, including cross-cultural case studies and fieldwork to examine both the management of the corpse and the construction of the 'soul' or 'spirit' by focusing on the work of:
*undertakers
*embalmers
*coroners
*clergy
*clairvoyants
*exorcists
*bereavement counsellors.

Beyond the Body Bewertungen

'By raising questions about the analytical adequacy of current approaches, the authors develop innovative answers to our sociological understanding of the relationships between the social self, the sequestration of the dead body and the social presence of the dead ... This study is an important contribution to social theory and demonstrates the value of adopting the sociology of the body as a perspective on death and sequestration in contemporary society. It is an imaginative contribution to the cluster of disciplines that are situated around the dying body including palliative care, the social psychology of bereavement and the sociology of death and dying.' - -Brian Turner, University of Cambridge

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1 Social identity and dying: self-less bodies; the dying body - visual and textual representations; silent bodies and narrative strategies. Part 2 The dead body as a site of social identity: the medical body contested; the legal body; the social body. Part 3 Social identity in the absence of the body: married life-after-death; disembodied selves; matter out of place.

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR008774409

ISBN 13

9780415182928

ISBN 10

0415182921

Titel

Beyond the Body: Death and Social Identity Elizabeth Hallam

Autor

Elizabeth Hallam

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Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Datum

19990624

Anzahl der Seiten

254

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