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Living with the Dead

How We Care for the Deceased

By: Vibeke Maria Viestad,Andreas Viestad

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Living with the Dead

How We Care for the Deceased

By: Vibeke Maria Viestad,Andreas Viestad

Spanning geographies, cultures, and the ages, a moving journey into the physical facts and metaphysical mysteries of how the living care for the dead. Death is universal. It will meet us all. But it’s also a practical problem—what do we do with dead bodies? Vibeke Maria and Andreas Viestad live by a cemetery and are daily spectators of its routines, and their fascination with burials has led them to dig deep to examine our relationship with the dead. Taking us on a journey around the world and into the past, the Viestads explore how the deceased are honored and cared for, cremated, and buried. From archaeological sites in Spain, Israel, and Russia to environmentally friendly burials in the United States and Ghana’s fantasy coffins, and from cremations without fire to the new industry turning our dearly departed’s ashes into diamonds, this empathetic and enthralling book is for anyone who knows their turn is coming, but who’d like a good book for the journey.

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178914812X

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Dress as Social Relations

An interpretation of Bushman dress

By: Vibeke Maria Viestad

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Dress as Social Relations

An interpretation of Bushman dress

By: Vibeke Maria Viestad

The history of dress in the South African bush To dress is a uniquely human experience, but practices and meanings of dress vary greatly among people. In a Western cultural tradition, the practice of dressing ‘properly’ has for centuries distinguished ‘civilised’ people from ‘savages’. Through travel literature and historical ethnographic descriptions of the Bushmen of southern Africa, such perceptions and prejudices have made their mark also on the modern research tradition. Because Bushmen were widely considered to be ‘nearly naked’ the study of dress has played a limited part in academic writings on Bushman culture. In Dress as Social Relations, Vibeke Maria Viestad challenges this myth of the nearly naked Bushman and provides an interdisciplinary study of Bushman dress, as it is represented in the archives and material culture of historical Bushman communities. Maintaining a critical perspective, Viestad provides an interpretation of the significance of dress for historical Bushman people. Dress, she argues, formed an embodied practice of social relations between humans, animals and other powerful beings of the Bushman world; moreover, this complex and meaningful practice was intimately related to subsistence strategies and social identity. The historical collections under scrutiny present a wide variety of research material representing different aspects of the bodily practice of dress. Whereas the Bleek & Lloyd archive of oral myths and narratives has become renowned for its great research potential, the artefact collections of Dorothea Bleek and Louis Fourie are much less known and have not earlier been published in a richly illustrated and comprehensive way. Dress as Social Relations is aimed at scholars and students of archaeology, anthropology, material culture studies, dress studies, ethnographic studies, museology, culture historical studies and African studies, but will also be of interest to people of descendant communities.

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NYU Press

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1776141938

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Dress as Social Relations

An interpretation of Bushman dress

By: Vibeke Maria Viestad

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An interpretation of Bushman dress

By: Vibeke Maria Viestad

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Living with the Dead

How We Care for the Deceased

By: Vibeke Maria Viestad,Andreas Viestad

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How We Care for the Deceased

By: Vibeke Maria Viestad,Andreas Viestad

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Living with the Dead

Living with the Dead

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Dress as Social Relations

Dress as Social Relations

Dress as Social Relations

Living with the Dead

Living with the Dead

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