Skin, Meaning, and Symbolism in Pet Memorials
Tattoos, Taxidermy, and Trinkets
Series: Emerald Studies in Death and Culture;
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Product details:
- Publisher Emerald Publishing Limited
- Date of Publication 27 June 2019
- ISBN 9781787564220
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages232 pages
- Size 198x129x13 mm
- Weight 257 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
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.
Harris, an author and researcher working in the areas of religion, death, popular culture, and science fiction, analyzes the mourning rituals that exist between people and their domestic pets, particularly how the skin of humans and animals is used as a site of memorialization, through taxidermy and tattoos, after the death of an animal. She discusses the bond between humans and animals in the domestic setting, the history of tattooing as a cultural tradition and social trend, the concept of memorialization and how it relates to companion animals, taxidermy and its use in mourning, the links between taxidermy and tattoos, the composition and aesthetics of memorial tattoo design, and the links between online image sharing of tattooed animals and the trend toward animal influencers on social media. More
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Humans and Animals: Living and Loving since the birth of the Pet Keeping Era
Tattooing: As Artwork, Language and Narrative
Memorializing Animals: Meaning and Mourning
Taxidermy: Echoes and Imitations of Life
A Union of Forms: Taxidermy and Tattooing
In the Skin: Memorial Tattoos
Chapter Seven
Animals Online: A New Frontier in Animal Studies?
F.C.S. Schiller on Pragmatism and Humanism: Selected Writings, 1891-1939
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