Spontaneous Shrines and the Public Memorialization of Death

1. Introduction
Jack Santino

2. Performative Commemoratives: Spontaneous Shrines and the Public Memorialization of Death
Jack Santino

3. Communicative Commemoration and Graveside Shrines: Princess Diana, Jim Morrison, My “Bro” Max, and Boogs the Cat
Jeannie Banks Thomas

4. Mourning in Protest: Spontaneous Memorials and the Sacralization of Public Space
Harriet F. Senie

5. “We’ll Watch Out for Liza and The Kids”: Spontaneous Memorials and Personal Response at the Pentagon, 2001
Margaret R. Yocom

6. Oh Did You See the Ashes Come Thickly Falling Down? Poems Posted in the Wake of September 11
Steve Zeitlin

7. Louisiana Roadside Memorials: Negotiating an Emerging Tradition
Maida Owens

8. “Like a Trace”: The Spontaneous Shrine as a Cultural Expression of Grief
Hege Westgaard

9. A Memorial Wall in Philadelphia
Jonathan Lohman

10. Twelve Aggie Angels: Content Analysis of the Spontaneous Shrines Following the 1999 Bonfire Collapse at Texas A&M University
Sylvia Grider

11. “The Call of the Ice”: Tragedy and Vernacular Responses of Resistance, Heroic Reconstruction, and Reclamation
Diane E. Goldstein, Diane Tye

12. The Missing and Photography: The Uses and Misuses of Globalization
Ariel Dorfman

13.
El Dia de los Muertos in the USA: Cultural Ritual as Political Communication
Regina Marchi

14. Signifying Places of Atrocity
Ralph Hartley

15. Forty Years of Conflict: State, Church, and Spontaneous Representation of Massacres and Murder in Guatemala
Matthew J. Taylor, Michael K. Steinberg

16. Trains of Workers, Trains of Death: Some Reflections after the March 11 Attacks in Madrid
Cristina Sánchez-Carretero

Avainsanat: Social Sciences, Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology, Personality and Social Psychology, Sociology, general