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Skin, Meaning, and Symbolism in Pet Memorials - Racheal Harris

Skin, Meaning, and Symbolism in Pet Memorials

Tattoos, Taxidermy, and Trinkets

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Buch | Softcover
232 Seiten
2019
Emerald Publishing Limited (Verlag)
978-1-78756-422-0 (ISBN)
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This book looks at changes to the ways Western culture memorialises the dead. Specifically, it considers the changing relationship between people and domestic animals. Rather than focusing on how these bonds have changed in day to day life, it examines these relationships by considering how, after death, these animals are remembered.
In response to increased academic interest in the fields of death studies, memorial studies, and human and animal studies, Skin, Meaning and Symbolism in Pet Memorials examines the mourning rituals which exist between people and their domestic pets.
 


Paying close attention to the changing role and increased prominence of the companion animal in the domestic setting, each chapter considers a different form of companion animal memorialization, linking modern practices such as tattooing to historical examples of animal focused memento mori, particularly taxidermy. The final chapter adopts a forward focus in its provision of a framework for future studies related to how death and memorialization rituals are increasingly coming to occupy the digital space. While skin and touch are the focal points of many encounters explored in the text, what becomes evident is how the virtual realm is increasingly intruding into the touch experience. As a result, the posthumous, online afterlives of pets are set to become a social issue of increasing significance to the death and mourning experience.  



This work meets the needs of academics, post-graduate students and general readers alike, appealing to anyone with an interest in death studies, popular culture, tattooing and human and animal studies.

Racheal Harris is an author and researcher working within the areas of religion, death, popular culture and science fiction. She has contributed to a number of edited collections on topics including: Pirates in Romance Fiction; religion in James Cameron’s Terminator franchise; and, depictions of death and folklore in The CW series, Supernatural.

Introduction Chapter One
Humans and Animals: Living and Loving since the birth of the Pet Keeping Era 

Chapter Two
Tattooing: As Artwork, Language and Narrative 
Chapter Three
Memorializing Animals: Meaning and Mourning 

Chapter Four
Taxidermy: Echoes and Imitations of Life 

Chapter Five
A Union of Forms: Taxidermy and Tattooing 
Chapter Six
In the Skin: Memorial Tattoos
Chapter Seven
Animals Online: A New Frontier in Animal Studies?
Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Emerald Studies in Death and Culture
Verlagsort Bingley
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 257 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Trennung / Trauer
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie Volkskunde
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10 1-78756-422-3 / 1787564223
ISBN-13 978-1-78756-422-0 / 9781787564220
Zustand Neuware
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