Staging the Dead. The Material Body as a Medium for Gender and Religion
The body is one of the basic media that form and communicate gender. How important gender is for the perception of an individual becomes especially clear by looking at the exhibition of a dead body. Having nothing left other than the body, the deceased are reduced to characteristics that seem to be...
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Language: | English |
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Karl Franzens Universität Graz
2015-11-01
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Series: | Journal for Religion, Film and Media |
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Online Access: | http://unipub.uni-graz.at/jrfm/periodical/pageview/809339 |