Mobile Sepulchre and Interactive Formats of Memorialization: On Funeral and Mourning Practices in Digital Art.

The practical and imaginative possibilities offered by art works and art strategies have always been interesting for anthropological research. Analyzing an artistic endeavor that understands the dead as social software, the article investigates contemporary conceptualizations of death and grieving w...

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Publicado en:Journeys Vol. 13; no. 2; pp. 71 - 90
Autor principal: Petrović-Šteger, Maja
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Berghahn Books Winter2012
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