Heritage of Death

Mattias Frihammar is a teacher and researcher in the Department of Ethnology at Stockholm University (SU). He is the founder of the Critical Heritage Studies Network and a member of the Scientific Council for the Master’s Programme in Cultural Heritage Management at SU.Helaine Silverman is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois and Director of the Collaborative for Cultural Heritage Management and Policy (CHAMP).

• PART I Introduction1. Heritage of Death: Emotion, Memory and Practice MATTIAS FRIHAMMAR AND HELAINE SILVERMANPART II Affect2. Graveside Shrines: Private or Public Space? EVA SILVÉN 3. Framing Children’s Sections in Cemeteries CATHARINA NOLIN 4. Taken "As Read": Locating Death in the Rhetoric of Cemetery Conservation in England JULIE RUGG PART III Celebrity5. "At last, Garbo is coming home": Celebrity, Death and Nation MATTIAS FRIHAMMAR 6. Dissonant Heritage and Dark Tourism at Lenin’s Mausoleum MAGDALENA BANASZKIEWICZ 7. The Corpse, Heritage, and Tourism: The Multiple Ontologies of the Body of King Richard III of England CRAIG YOUNG AND DUNCAN LIGHTPART IV War8. The Poppies Exhibit: Producing and Consuming Commemoration of World War I in Britain PAUL HARDIN KAPP AND CELE C. OTNES 9. At the Shrine of the Fallen: Conserving Australia’s War Memorial Heritage DAVID MASON 10. "Now you have visited the war": The Search for Fallen Soldiers in Russia JOHANNA DAHLINPART V Oppression11. Armenia Aeterna: Commemorative Heritage in Sound, Sculpture, and Movement from Bulgaria’s Armenian Diaspora DONNA A. BUCHANAN 12. Uncovering Violent Narratives: The Heritage of Stalinist Repression in Russia since 1991 MARGARET COMER 13. The Peculiar Heritage of Lynching in America RASUL A. MOWATT PART VI Unbounded14. Death Everywhere: Dissolving Commemorative Boundaries in a Liquid World DAVID CHARLES SLOANE 15. Tourists at Chernobyl: Existential Meaning and Digital Media TIM HUTCHINGS AND KATYA LINDENPART VII Epilogue16. "Dark" Tourism and the Heritage of Death JOY M. SATHER-WAGSTAFF