Routledge Handbook of Dark Events

Introduction

PART I Cultural celebrations, traditions and honouring the dead in dark events

1 A play to banish the darkness: the domestication of death in Bulgarian folk traditions

2 Sacred shadowed pathways: Kukai and the Shikoku pilgrimage

3 Rituals of remembrance: exploring mortuary and mourning rites among the Akan of Ghana

4 Nigeria Indigenous community and befitting burial for the deceased going-to-the-spirit land

5 Sacred sustenance: culinary death rituals and mourning events among Assamese Hindus and Christian Nagas

PART II Interpretation, representation and display of the dead for dark events

6 Commemorating the deceased through the Hungry Ghosts Festival in Hong Kong

7 Representing Samhain: symbols, semiotics and Halloween

8 Fact or fiction: Walpurgis Night and the commemoration of the victims of Germany's witch trials

9 Italy's martyrs for peace: representing suffering and patriotic sacrifice after the Nasiriyah Massacre of 2003

PART III Negotiating commemoration, commodification and authenticity in dark events

10 Re-enacting the Gulag: authenticity and commemoration of the Soviet penal heritage in Kazakhstan

11 Dark commemorative events and selective amnesia in Cambodia

12 Death, ritual and deification: examining the commemorative procession of Kerala's iconic politician, Oommen Chandy

13 Ritual returns: commemoration, commodification and the evolution of UK Halloween festivals

PART IV Historicising dark events through memory and meaning

14 'More like the first exhibition at a playhouse, than the solemnity of a Funeral': spectating urban funeral events in late 18th-century London

15 Seeing justice done: a day at the Tyburn Fair in the long 18th century

16 At the dark edge of life and death: sin-eating rituals in Britain (1640-1900)

17 Shadows of the departed: post-mortem photography and mourning rituals in Victorian society

18 Immortalising the premature death: commemorating talented daughters in Ming-Qing China (16th to early 20th centuries)

19 Honour and sacrifice: the socio-cultural dynamics of Jauhar and co-cremation in medieval South Asian traditions

PART V Dark events in popular culture and media

20 Manifesting ghosts and mimicking ghost hunters: media and the rise of ghost hunting events

21 Heroism to horror: the reception and transformation of the 'blood eagle' in popular culture

22 If they come, we must build it: popular culture, tradition and the Hollywoodization of Dia de Muertos in Mexico City

23 Celebration, cultural appropriation, or something else? La Catrina, Barbie dolls, and Day of the Dead

24 La Santa Compana: a demonstration of the literary and ritualistic richness surrounding death in Galician folklore

PART VI Culture, controversy and dark events

25 Navigating culture, religion, and controversy: the Penitensya rituals in the Philippines as a dark event

26 Death as a celebration of spiritual liberation: the controversial pathways of Aghori Sadhus in India

27 Multivalent organised commemoration of the Great War: building transcultural memory with (embedded) fissures

28 Dark events and media controversies: Remembrance Sunday in the United Kingdom

PART VII Grief, memory and the affective dimensions of dark events

29 The Dust Parlour: speaking to the dead

30 Death at play: celebration and memorialisation of motorsport's dead

31 Eternal troupers: circus death memorialisation and community identity

32 Managing death rites and mourning rituals in the modern era: the evolution of Brazilian funeral rites

PART VIII Managing dark event experiences

33 Managing collective memory through funeral events: an experience design perspective

34 Cultivating a death network through dark academic and pedagogical events

35 Managing Black Metal festivals

36 Managing event spaces and visitor experiences: entering liminal worlds at the Whitby Goth Weekend and Dublin's Bram Stoker Festival

37 Managing subcultural capital dynamics for dark events: the case of the Moonlight Goth Music Festival (Italy, 2009-2011)

PART IX Legacy, decolonisation and equality for the dead within dark events

38 Murder mystery and mayhem: digging up the human stories lurking in 19th-century cemeteries

39 Considering the legacy of cultural genocide: commemorating the colonial expulsion of the Garifuna from their Caribbean homeland

40 Glocal perspectives on the dark heritage of Indigenous reconciliation events

PART X Dark event futures

41 Royal funerals as dark events: organisational and emotional challenges

42 Tea and hammers: new weapons in the battle with death anxiety

43 Glacier funerals as dark events of the Anthropocene

44 Bringing out the dead: body worlds exhibits as touchstones for reflection

Dark events and remaking our lifeworld: an afterword

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• Indústria do turismo
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• Morte e morrer: Sociologia

mortuary rituals;commemorative practices;post-mortem photography;cultural memory studies;ritualistic mourning;subcultural festival management;death ritual analysis in global societies