{"title":"Shannon Lee Dawdy","description":"\u003cp\u003eShannon Lee Dawdy’s works explore the complexities of cultural memory, history, and the dynamic relationships between people and their environments. With a focus on rich ethnographic detail, her writing invites readers to consider how societies remember and reinterpret the past in the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in the \u003cem\u003eEducation \u0026amp; Reference\u003c\/em\u003e category, her books offer insightful perspectives that blend anthropology and history, making them essential for readers interested in social sciences and humanities. Expect thoughtful, well-researched narratives that challenge conventional understandings of afterlives and historical experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"american-afterlives-by-shannon-lee-dawdy-9780691210643","title":"American Afterlives","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA mesmerizing trip across America to investigate the changing face of death in contemporary life\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDeath in the United States is undergoing a quiet revolution. You can have your body frozen, dissected, composted, dissolved, or tanned. Your family can incorporate your remains into jewellery, shotgun shells, paperweights, and artwork. Cremations have more than doubled, and DIY home funerals and green burials are on the rise. \u003cem\u003eAmerican Afterlives\u003c\/em\u003e is Shannon Lee Dawdy's lyrical and compassionate account of changing death practices in America as people face their own mortality and search for a different kind of afterlife.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs an anthropologist and archaeologist, Dawdy knows that how a society treats its dead yields powerful clues about its beliefs and values. As someone who has experienced loss herself, she knows there is no way to tell this story without also reexamining her own views about death and dying. In this meditative and gently humorous book, Dawdy embarks on a transformative journey across the United States, talking to funeral directors, death-care entrepreneurs, designers, cemetery owners, death doulas, and ordinary people from all walks of life. What she discovers is that, by reinventing death, Americans are reworking their ideas about personhood, ritual, and connection across generations. She also confronts the seeming contradiction that American death is becoming at the same time more materialistic and more spiritual.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in conjunction with a documentary film project, \u003cem\u003eAmerican Afterlives\u003c\/em\u003e features images by cinematographer Daniel Zox that provide their own testament to our rapidly changing attitudes toward death and the afterlife.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47595668046060,"sku":"9780691210643","price":59.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780691210643-american-afterlives.jpg?v=1777900142"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/shannon-lee-dawdy.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}