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This anthropological study examines the relationship between leisure and death, specifically how leisure practices are used to meditate upon—and mediate—life. Considering travelers who seek enjoyment but encounter death and dying, tourists who accidentally face their own mortality while vacationing, those who intentionally seek out pleasure activities that pertain to mortality and risk, and those who use everyday leisure practices like social media or dogwalking to cope with death, __Leisure and Death__ delves into one of the most provocative subsets of contemporary cultural anthropology. These nuanced and well-developed ethnographic case studies deal with different and distinct examples of the intertwining of leisure and death. They challenge established conceptions of leisure and rethink the associations attached to the prospect of death. Chapters testify to encounters with death on a personal and scholarly level, exploring, for example, the Cliffs of Moher as not only one of the most popular tourist destinations in Ireland but one of the most well-known suicide destinations as well, and the estimated 30 million active posthumous Facebook profiles being repurposed through proxy u

Who reads Leisure and Death : an Anthropological Tour of Risk, Death, and Dying?

Author

Adam R Kaul; Jonathan Skinner; University Press of Colorado

Publisher

University Press of Colorado Chicago Distribution Center [Distributor

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781607327295

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Anthropology, Social_sciences