New Perspectives on Urban Deathscapes

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New Perspectives on Urban Deathscapes

Author	: Avril Maddrell
File Size	: 40,8 Mb
Publisher	: Edward Elgar Publishing
Language	: English
Release Date	: 14 February 2023
ISBN	: 9781802202397
Pages	: 229 pages

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New Perspectives on Urban Deathscapes by Avril Maddrell Book PDF Summary

Establishing a new set of international perspectives on experiences of death, disposition and remembrance in urban environments, this book brings deathscapes – material, embodied and emotional places associated with dying and death – to life. It pushes the boundaries of established empirical and conceptual understandings of death in urban spaces through anthropological, geographical and ethnographic insights.

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