Skin, Meaning, and Symbolism in Pet Memorials by Harris, Racheal;

Tattoos, Taxidermy, and Trinkets

Sorozatcím: Emerald Studies in Death and Culture;

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Kiadó Emerald Publishing Limited
Megjelenés dátuma 2019. június 27.

ISBN 9781787564220
Kötéstípus Puhakötés
Terjedelem232 oldal
Méret 198x129x13 mm
Súly 257 g
Nyelv angol

Kategóriák

Szociális kérdések, szociális munka Hagyománykincs

Rövid leírás:

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.

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Hosszú leírás:

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.

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.

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