The materiality of mourning :  cross-disciplinary perspectives / 
spine title :  The materiality of mourning. 
edited by Zahra Newby and Ruth E. Toulson. 
 - xiv, 265 pages :  illustrations, ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : emotions and materiality in theory and method / Ruth E. Toulson and Zahra Newby -- Dead people's clothes : materialising mourning and memory in Ancient Rome / Valerie M. Hope -- Remembering Roland Leighton : uniforms as the materials of memory in World War I / Emily Brayshaw -- Destroying objects, keeping memories / Eric Venbrux -- The Grottarossa doll and her mistress : hope and consolation in a Roman tomb / Zahra Newby -- Talking with a cold grey stone : the life and death of gravestones in contemporary Denmark / Anne Kjaesgaard -- The face of the deceased : portrait busts in Roman tombs / Helen I. Ackers -- Enduring grief : images of mourning from the ancient classical world to eighteenth-century Britain / Kate A. Beats -- The'worth' of grief and the'value' of bodies : managing the civilian corpse in Second World War Britain / Lucy Noakes -- Fragments of bone and chips of stone : materiality and mourning in a Chinese society / Ruth E. Toulson -- Sacred rituals of the security state : reclaiming bodies and making relics from Ground Zero / Charlotte Heath-Kelly -- Why materiality in mourning matters / Michael Brennan -- The death turn : interdisciplinarity, mourning and material culture / Douglas J. Davies. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780815356639  RM628.82 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mourning customs--Cross-cultural studies.<br/>Bereavement--Social aspects--Cross-cultural studies.<br/>Material culture--Cross-cultural studies.