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• W283672983 abstract "Deathscapes: for Death, Dying, Mourning and Remembrance Edited by Avril Maddrell and James D. Sidaway Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2010. xvi + 305pp. Photographs, bibliographies, and index. $124.95, ISBN 978-0754679752.My parents are buried in one of those gigantic memorial parks in the central part of Long Island where all of the markers are flushed to the surface, and scattered official plantings and a few distant sculptures are the only breaks in an otherwise featureless plain. As someone who studies early cemeteries, I despise the place, but I had no control at the time over where they were to be buried. However, one landscape feature is inescapable, much to my delight. the edge of the property runs the Long Island Railroad, and every ten minutes or so, a train goes by, changing the sterile peace into a cacophony of steel on steel. Standing at the gravesite, I am less than 200 feet from the right-of-way. Dad would have loved it.Reading Deathscapes reminded me of that cemetery. If I were to write an indepth essay on the layout of memorial park cemeteries, examining them from the view of aesthetics or phenomenology, or the contrast of jarring landscape features, my paper could sit nicely within the set of articles offered in the book. Deathscapes is a collection of fifteen papers from multiple disciplines that has its origins in a conference in Bath, England in 2007. Most of the authors are British, with a scattering of other Europeans and Americans. Among the disciplines included are geography (especially represented by the editors), architecture, fine arts, sociology, anthropology, history, and plant science. Twenty-three authors of fifteen papers, all with long titles, require me to be concise in my references and brief in my descriptions. However, the good fortune is that the editors have done a splendid job of organizing the chapters and the groupings link similarities of theme, place, or method, making that task easier.After an introductory chapter by the editors outlining the scope of the studies to come, the papers are grouped into four sections that are thematic in nature: At the Threshold - Living with Death; Spaces of Burial: Taboo, Iconoclasm and Returning to Nature; Space for Memorialization in Private and Public Space; and Art and Design in Service of Remembrance and Mourning. With mixed results, each of these examines some theme related to deathscapes. The usual warnings about edited volumes being uneven apply in abundance here. There are a half dozen truly excellent chapters, several that needed more work to be solid contributions to the literature, and a couple that should not have been published. The black and white photos are generally good but not opulent, although the price of the book would suggest that they should be. Maps are fewer in number than one would expect, and quantitative analysis is minimal, as the authors have largely opted for analysis of interview data or descriptive studies.The editors begin by defining the term deathscape, to refer to all places and spaces devoted to death and dying, a rather all-encompassing term, but one that leads to some juxtapositions that are not often considered in the same context. Should one examine the spatial organization or location of a hospice in the same way that one looks at a cemetery, a crematorium, a household shrine, or a roadside memorial? What do we learn from such a study? Something useful or insightful could come of it, but sadly, the sections sequester these themes so that they do not intertwine in ways that provide us with those treasured insights, nor do the editors attempt to wrap the collection with a conclusion that might lead us somewhere new.To me, the core of the book is found in the third section: Negotiating Space for Memorialization, where the four studies included are indeed thematically intertwined and are significant contributions to the literature. The first deals with spontaneous memorials for traffic accident victims that appear at roadsides in Sweden. …" @default.
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