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From Mystery to Spectacle: Essays on Death in Serbia from the 19th-21st Century
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- Summary
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"This is book about death and dying, about attitudes that common people nowadays have towards their own death and death in general, about inexhaustible symbolic capital that makes event of death th...
"This is book about death and dying, about attitudes that common people nowadays have towards their own death and death in general, about inexhaustible symbolic capital that makes event of death the most usable one in creating cultural and political strategies and rituals. Author travels from rural to urban spaces, from traditional to contemporary ritual forms and ideological frames, from private to public discourses, from everyday life to political spheres, from mystery to spectacle and vice versa. This book will not help reader to solve the mystery of death, but it may improve his/her understanding of some forms it takes in contemporary society."
Details
- Creator
- Aleksandra Pavićević
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Belgrade [Serbia] : Etnografski institut SANU 2015
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (1 p. 156)
- ISBNs
- 8675870795
- Text in English, Title pages and "About this Book" in English and Serbian (Cyrillic)
- In or out of cultural and historical matrix? Researching death in Serbian ethnology during the second half of the 20th century -- Death and funeral in Serbia at the beginning of third millennia. Attitudes and rituals of common people -- Historical overview of the development of cremation in Serbia. From ecology to ideology -- Is death "ethnic" enough? Dying in emigration -- Two earthquakes. Ideological influences on media reporting of natural disasters -- "Dead man walking". Exhumation and reburial of famous deceased in Serbia -- Creating Heroes - death, religion and politics