Death: Confronting the Great Divide Speaker series/Mobile Memorials: Carrying the Dead in the Twenty-First Century
In a period when American cemeteries get ever fewer visitors, it is clear that in many communities, grave stones and mausolea are no longer effective ways to commemorate the dead. This talk traces the development of mobile memorials, from tattoos to car decal memorials, as contemporary ways of (literally) carrying the dead around with us, […]