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The obituary as collective memory /
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
c2007.
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| Series: | Routledge advances in sociology ;
27 |
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| Online Access: | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip075/2006038300.html |
Table of Contents:
- Theoretical, historical and quantitative studies of the obituary
- Introduction
- Collective memory
- The historical sociology of death
- Bourdieu's social theory and the obituary
- The Times' obituaries in 1900 and 1948
- The social value of death: the microworld of the editors
- The lives we choose to remember: a quantitative analysis (with Esperanza Bielsa)
- Memories burnished at the shock of death : discourse analysis of newspaper obituaries
- The politicians' obituaries, 1999-2006
- The writers' obituaries, 1999-2006
- The artists' obituaries, 1999-2006
- The sports obituaries, 1999-2006
- The trade-unionists' obituaries, 1999-2006
- Conclusion
- Tables
- Bibliography.