Titlebook: Spontaneous Shrines and the Public Memorialization of Death; Jack Santino Book 2006 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc.

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Performative Commemoratives: Spontaneous Shrines and the Public Memorialization of Death,ath, and to acknowledge the circumstances of the deaths. The Mourning Wall at the site of the Oklahoma City bombing; the so-called flower revolution in Great Britain after the death of Princess Diana; “Ground Zero” in New York after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as well as roadside cr

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,Communicative Commemoration and Graveside Shrines: Princess Diana, Jim Morrison, My “Bro” Max, and to ask for help, to reach toward other worlds, to remember, and to heal. In this article, I discuss several types of contemporary shrines and detail some of the behaviors surrounding them. While I do not attempt to be exhaustive; I do present specific examples of some common kinds of secular folk sh

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,“Like a Trace”: The Spontaneous Shrine as a Cultural Expression of Grief, accidents or where other tragic deaths have occurred. Sometimes small notes, letters, or even objects which can be related to what has happened, are placed among the candles. Especially when children die, we can observe toys, teddy bears, and other plush animals among the flowers and candles. The s

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A Memorial Wall in Philadelphia,ports the final moments of her child’s life in striking detail. “Well, he and this boy got into an argument….” Rarely was the murder a result of a robbery, and rarely was it premeditated. Instead it seems to always result from some kind of “argument,” usually with someone the victim knew, over somet

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Twelve Aggie Angels: Content Analysis of the Spontaneous Shrines Following the 1999 Bonfire Collapsn addition to the ubiquitous flowers and candles, the artifacts of which each shrine is comprised are manifestations of this individuality. For example, the shrine at NASA headquarters following the explosion of the .. space shuttle featured Israeli flags because one of the astronauts was the first

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The Missing and Photography: The Uses and Misuses of Globalization,of those whose loved ones, from Chile to Kurdistan, from Argentina to Ethiopia, from Guatemala to Guinea, have been abducted in the night and never heard of again. Mothers and daughters, wives and sisters, demanding to know the true fate of their men, demanding that they be returned to their familie

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, in the USA: Cultural Ritual as Political Communication,missed as apolitical activities that serve only to entertain. As a result, ritual as a medium for critiquing dominant systems of power has generally been neglected within the field of Cultural Studies in favor of analyses of mass media cultural production (Limón 1994: 11). However, cultural scholars