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academia, books, embalming, higher education, mourning, photography, writing
My choice for Inside Higher Ed‘s Readers’ Choice Awards for best academic book published this year:
#IHEReadersChoice “Dead Matter” about iconic corpses @UMinnPress https://t.co/iQgoMjqZQb pic.twitter.com/DH1FcV72EN
— Rachael Hanel (@rachael18) November 30, 2015
From the University of Minnesota Press:
“By examining the association between photography and embalming—both as aesthetics and as mourning practices—Margaret Schwartz theorizes the connections between the body and the image and outlines a new politics of representation.”
To vote for my choice, please go to Twitter and like my tweet Dec. 7-13. Anyone who ends up voting for the winner gets entered in a drawing for the book!
I personally cannot wait to read this book.
If You Have Five Seconds to Spare 