Tamara Kohn

An Interrogation of Sensory Anthropology of and in Japan

Hannah Gould, Richard Chenhall, Tamara Kohn, Carolyn S Stevens

Journal article  |  2019  |  Anthropological Quarterly

Sensory anthropology has quickly become a dynamic and expansive field of contemporary scholarship, with ethnographers increasingly..

Managing the consumption of death and digital media: The funeral director as market intermediary

Luke van Ryn, James Meese, Michael Arnold, Bjorn Nansen, Martin Gibbs, Tamara Kohn

Journal article  |  2019  |  Death Studies

A growing number of companies are offering digital products and services for use in funerals. Drawing on interdisciplinary researc..

Residues of Death: Disposal Refigured

Book  |  2019

This book provides a critical overview of the changing ways people mourn, commemorate and interact with the remains of the dead, i..

Reviewed Published Comment on Anthropology Through Levinas (Further Reflections): On Humanity, Being, Culture, Violation, Sociality, and Morality

T Kohn

Journal article  |  2019  |  Current Anthropology

The disposition of the destitute

Michael Arnold, Bjorn Nansen, Tamara Kohn, Martin Gibbs, Hannah Gould

Journal article  |  2019  |  Parity

The final disposition is a term used by people in the funeral industry to refer to the burial or cremation of a dead person. The f..

Life in death's residues

Tamara Kohn, Elizabeth Hallam

Book Chapter  |  2019

This chapter explores how contemporary disposal processes relating to the deceased are currently being refigured in practice, and ..

‘Death by Twitter’: Understanding false death announcements on social media and the performance of platform cultural capital

Bjorn Nansen, Dominic O'Donnell, Michael Arnold, Tamara Kohn, Martin Gibbs

Journal article  |  2019  |  First Monday

In this paper, we analyse false death announcements of public figures on social media and public responses to them. The analysis d..

Uploading the ancestors: Experiments with digital Buddhist altars in contemporary Japan

Hannah Gould, Tamara Kohn, Martin Gibbs

Journal article  |  2019  |  Death Studies

Domestic Buddhist altars have long provided symbolically and materially rich media for venerating the dead in Japan. However, as J..

"Backs" to Nature: Musing on Tourist Selfies

T Kohn

Book Chapter  |  2018

This volume, Tourists and Tourism, is organized for use in the classroom. My newly solicited chapter critically analyses how ideas..

The Social Life of the Dead and the Leisured Life of the Living Online

T KOHN, J Meese, M Arnold, M Gibbs, B Nansen

Book Chapter  |  2018