Rite, Flesh, and Stone (eBook)

The Matter of Death in Contemporary Spanish Culture

Antonio Córdoba, Daniel García-Donoso (Herausgeber)

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2021
346 Seiten
Vanderbilt University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8265-0220-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Forensic science provides information and data behind the circumstances of a particular death, but it is culture that provides death with meaning. With this in mind, Rite, Flesh, and Stone proposes cultural matters of death as its structuring principle, operating as frames of the expression of mortality within a distinct set of coordinates. The chapters offer original approaches to how human remains are handled in the embodied rituals and social performances of contemporary funeral rites of all kinds; furthermore, they explore how dying flesh and corpses are processed by means of biopolitical technologies and the ethics of (self-)care, and how the vibrant and breathing materiality of the living is transformed into stone and analogous kinds of tangible, empirical presence that engender new cartographies of memory. Each coming from a specific disciplinary perspective, authors in this volume problematize conventional ideas about the place of death in contemporary Western societies and cultures using Spain as a case study. Materials analyzed hereranging from cinematic and literary fictions, to historical archives and anthropological and ethnographic sourcesmake explicit a dynamic scenario where actors embody a variety of positions toward death and dying, the political production of mortality, and the commemoration of the dead. Ultimately, the goal of this volume is to chart the complex network in which the disenchantment of death and its reenchantment coexist, and biopolitical control over secularized bodies overlaps with new avatars of the religious and non-theistic desires for memorialization and transcendence.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.10.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Hispanic Issues
• Reihe/Serie: Hispanic Issues
• Co-Autor: Eugenia Afinoguénova, Pedro Aguilera-Mellado, Ana Fernández-Cebrián, Patty Keller, Angel G. Loureiro, Cristina Moreiras-Menor, Annabel Martín, Jordi Moreras, N. Michelle Murray, Layla Renshaw, Elizabeth Scarlett, Sol Tarrés, William Viestenz
• Zusatzinfo: 21 b&w illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: 1898: Los últimos de Filipinas film • Afterlife • AIDS • Alejandro González Iñárritu • Amador film • anthropology of death • Autobiography • beatification • Biopolitics • Biutiful film • Body • burial • Carlos Saura • Catholic Church • cemeteries • Cemetery • children in cinema • corpse • Covid-19 • Cría cuervos film • Death • Death Penalty • desarrollismo • disappearance • Elisa, vida mía film • El verdugo film • Euskadi • executioners • exhumations • Fernando León • flesh • forensic anthropology • forensic eulogy • Francisco Franco • funerals • Funerary Rites • Historical Memory • historical trauma • History of death • holy week • invented traditions • Javier Codesal • Jesús Carrasco • La prima angélica film • Luis García Berlanga • Manuel Fraga • Manuel Rivas • Mass graves • Memory • Migrants • migrants and Spain • Mourning • muslim cemeteries • Nanclares de Oca • Necropolitics • O lapis do carpinteiro novel • orphanhood • Palmeras en la nieve film • Pepe Espaliú • Performance • photography • Portico da Gloria, Santiago de Compostela • postcolonial theory • posthumous • Reconciliation • religious cemeteries • Religious Festivals • Restitution • Ritual • sanctification • Spain and Equatorial Guinea • Spain and the Philippines • Spanish Civil War • Spanish colonialism • Spanish culture and history • Spanish Muslims • Spanish Transition • Tourism • victims of terrorism
• ISBN-10: 0-8265-0220-2 / 0826502202
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8265-0220-9 / 9780826502209