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Leisure and death: an anthropological tour of risk, death, and dying

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dc.contributor.authorKaul, Adam, editor
dc.contributor.authorSkinner, Jonathan, editor
dc.contributor.authorUniversity Press of Colorado, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-18T20:40:36Z
dc.date.available2018-06-18T20:40:36Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references and index.
dc.description.abstractInterdisciplinary study of dark tourism that examines the relationship between leisure and death, specifically how leisure practice is used to meditate upon and mediate life. Grounded in international anthropological case studies, the authors theorize on the links between spaces of death and leisure.--Provided by publisher.
dc.description.tableofcontentsDying in a strange land: tourism, hospitality and promises to the dead / Maribeth Erb -- Days of wine and walking: leisure, excess, and authenticity on the Camino / Keith Egan -- Johan Huizinga goes tombstoning with the devil / Patrick Laviolette -- Leisure in the "Land of the Walking Dead": western mortuary tourism in Tana Toraja, Indonesia / Kathleen Adams -- That 'awful margin': tourism, risk, and death at the Cliffs of Moher / Adam Kaul -- Tourism of darkness and light: entanglement of war memory and tourism in Palau / Shingo Litaka -- Momento mori and tourist encounters with authentic death in European ossuaries / Cyril Schafer with Ruth McManus -- Parading through the storm: risk, death, and parades in Northern Ireland / Ray Casserly -- How to eat an endangered species: Tuscan gastronomic tourism and Cinta Senese pigs / Rachel Horner-Brackett -- The social life of the dead and the leisured life of the living online / Tamara Kohn -- 'Rumour has it': leisure, rumour and distortion at funerals in central Greece / Stravoula Pipyrou -- 'If you go down in the woods': British woodland burial, leisurely funerals, and recreational burial grounds / Hannah Rumble -- Epilogue / James Fernandez.
dc.format.mediumborn digital
dc.format.mediumbooks
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10217/189540
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofUniversity Press of Colorado
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dc.rights.accessAccess is limited to the Adams State University, Colorado State University, Colorado State University Pueblo, Community College of Denver, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University Denver, Regis University, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, University of Denver, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University and Western Colorado University communities only.
dc.subject.lcshDark tourism
dc.subject.lcshDeath -- Social aspects
dc.titleLeisure and death: an anthropological tour of risk, death, and dying
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