TY - JOUR
T1 - The cultures of grief
T2 - The practice of post-mortem photography and iconic internalized voices
AU - Tateo, Luca
PY - 2018/10/25
Y1 - 2018/10/25
N2 - I develop an exploratory analysis of “post-mortem photography”, a social practice existing in different cultures. The study, part of a larger project in Denmark, “The culture of grief”, combines Dialogical Self Theory, mainly concerning verbal and textual objects, with the iconic framework of affective semiosis to discuss the function of taking and keeping pictures of dead persons as if they were still alive or just sleeping. How can this practice and artifact culturally mediate the experience of death and the elaboration of grief? What kind of inner dialogue is developed through the internalization of this specific kind of presence/absence? These are some of the preliminary questions I will try to answer by discussing some examples of post-mortem photography from the 19th and 20th centuries in different countries.
AB - I develop an exploratory analysis of “post-mortem photography”, a social practice existing in different cultures. The study, part of a larger project in Denmark, “The culture of grief”, combines Dialogical Self Theory, mainly concerning verbal and textual objects, with the iconic framework of affective semiosis to discuss the function of taking and keeping pictures of dead persons as if they were still alive or just sleeping. How can this practice and artifact culturally mediate the experience of death and the elaboration of grief? What kind of inner dialogue is developed through the internalization of this specific kind of presence/absence? These are some of the preliminary questions I will try to answer by discussing some examples of post-mortem photography from the 19th and 20th centuries in different countries.
KW - affective semiosis
KW - grief culture
KW - iconic internalization
KW - polyphony
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85056133668&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1515/humaff-2018-0038
DO - 10.1515/humaff-2018-0038
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1210-3055
VL - 28
SP - 471
EP - 482
JO - Human Affairs
JF - Human Affairs
IS - 4
ER -