The Obituary as Collective Memory

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ISBN: 9780415364935 | 0415364930
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 6/27/2007

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The first serious academic study of obituaries, this book focuses on how societies remember. Bridget Fowler makes great use of the theories of Pierre Bordieu, arguing that obituaries are one important component in society's collective memory. This book, the first of its kind, will find a place on every serious sociology scholar's bookshelves.

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Acknowledgements	p. xi
Theoretical, historical and quantitative studies of the obituary	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
Collective memory	p. 25
The historical sociology of death	p. 41
Bourdieu's social theory and the obituary	p. 59
The Times' obituaries in 1900 and 1948	p. 81
The social value of death: The microworld of the editors	p. 105
The lives we choose to remember: A quantitative analysis	p. 129
Memories burnished at the shock of death: Discourse analysis of newspaper obituaries	p. 157
The politicians' obituaries (1999-2006)	p. 159
The writers' obituaries (1999-2006)	p. 181
The artists' obituaries (1999-2006)	p. 197
The sports obituaries (1999-2006)	p. 217
The trade unionists' obituaries (1999-2006)	p. 233
Conclusion	p. 243
Notes	p. 251
Bibliography	p. 273
Index	p. 285
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