Sheila Harper
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5185037 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sheila Harper |
| NOMBRES | Sheila |
| APELLIDO | Harper |
| FIRMA | HARPER S |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-8776-5133 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 4 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 3 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 4 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
I’m glad she has her glasses on. That really makes the difference’
Very little has been written about the inclusion of grave goods in contemporary English or American death rituals. Typically, the study of grave goods has fallen within the spheres of archaeological and anthropological research, with sociological theories of material culture considering how objects left behind by the dead form part of the lives of the bereaved. In this article, the author focuses on the objects that are placed with the recently d…
Objects of the dead
Objects of the dead: mourning and memory in everyday life, by Margaret Gibson, Melbourne, VA, Melbourne University Press, 2008, 216 pp., AUD$27.95 (paperback), ISBN 13-978-0-522-85557-9 Gibson stat
The social agency of dead bodies
This article promotes Alfred Gell's theory of agency (1998) as an important framework that can be used to inform research in the field of Death Studies. Gell argues that agency can be abducted from objects via relationships between four ‘terms’ (indexes, artists, recipients and prototypes) and that these relationships can take multiple forms depending on which of the terms is positioned as ‘agent’ and which is positioned as ‘patient’. These relat…
Advertising Six Feet Under
In May 2003, the UK terrestrial television station Channel 4 launched an advertising campaign to promote the second series of the American television programme Six Feet Under. The images used, depicting live models stylised to resemble corpses, appeared to advertise a (fictional) brand of ‘afterlife beauty accessories’ including ‘wound filler’, ‘lip lock’, and ‘embalming fluid’. The campaign came under the scrutiny of the UK's Advertising Standar…
I’m glad she has her glasses on. That really makes the difference’
Very little has been written about the inclusion of grave goods in contemporary English or American death rituals. Typically, the study of grave goods has fallen within the spheres of archaeological and anthropological research, with sociological theories of material culture considering how objects left behind by the dead form part of the lives of the bereaved. In this article, the author focuses on the objects that are placed with the recently d…
Advertising Six Feet Under
In May 2003, the UK terrestrial television station Channel 4 launched an advertising campaign to promote the second series of the American television programme Six Feet Under. The images used, depicting live models stylised to resemble corpses, appeared to advertise a (fictional) brand of ‘afterlife beauty accessories’ including ‘wound filler’, ‘lip lock’, and ‘embalming fluid’. The campaign came under the scrutiny of the UK's Advertising Standar…
Objects of the dead
Objects of the dead: mourning and memory in everyday life, by Margaret Gibson, Melbourne, VA, Melbourne University Press, 2008, 216 pp., AUD$27.95 (paperback), ISBN 13-978-0-522-85557-9 Gibson stat
The social agency of dead bodies
This article promotes Alfred Gell's theory of agency (1998) as an important framework that can be used to inform research in the field of Death Studies. Gell argues that agency can be abducted from objects via relationships between four ‘terms’ (indexes, artists, recipients and prototypes) and that these relationships can take multiple forms depending on which of the terms is positioned as ‘agent’ and which is positioned as ‘patient’. These relat…
I’m glad she has her glasses on. That really makes the difference’
Very little has been written about the inclusion of grave goods in contemporary English or American death rituals. Typically, the study of grave goods has fallen within the spheres of archaeological and anthropological research, with sociological theories of material culture considering how objects left behind by the dead form part of the lives of the bereaved. In this article, the author focuses on the objects that are placed with the recently d…
History (4 obras) · History (4 obras) · Sociology (4 obras) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (3 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Political science (3 obras) · Aesthetics (2 obras) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 obras) · Anthropology (2 obras)