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Leisure and Death: An Anthropological Tour of Risk, Death, and Dying
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This anthropological study examines the relationship between leisure and death, specifically how leisure practices are used to meditate uponand mediatelife. Considering travelers who seek enjoyment but encounter death and dying, tourists who accidentally face their own mortality while vacationing, those who intentionally seek out pleasure activities that pertain to mortality and risk, and those who use everyday leisure practices like social media or dogwalking to cope with death, Leisure and Death delves into one of the most provocative subsets of contemporary cultural anthropology.

These nuanced and well-developed ethnographic case studies deal with different and distinct examples of the intertwining of leisure and death. They challenge established conceptions of leisure and rethink the associations attached to the prospect of death. Chapters testify to encounters with death on a personal and scholarly level, exploring, for example, the Cliffs of Moher as not only one of the most popular tourist destinations in Ireland but one of the most well-known suicide destinations as well, and the estimated 30 million active posthumous Facebook profiles being repurposed through proxy users and transformed by continued engagement with the living. From the respectful to the fascinated, from the macabre to the morbid, contributors consider how people deliberately, or unexpectedly, negotiate the borderlands of the living.

An engaging, timely book that explores how spaces of death can be transformed into spaces of leisure, Leisure and Death makes a significant contribution to the burgeoning interdisciplinary literature on leisure studies and dark tourism. This book will appeal to students, scholars, and laypeople interested in tourism studies, death studies, cultural studies, heritage studies, anthropology, sociology, and marketing.

Contributors: Kathleen M. Adams, Michael Arnold, Jane Desmond, Keith Egan, Maribeth Erb, James Fernandez, Martin Gibbs, Rachel Horner-Brackett, Shingo Iitaka, Tamara Kohn, Patrick Laviolette, Ruth McManus, James Meese, Bjorn Nansen, Stravoula Pipyrou, Hannah Rumble, Cyril Schafer

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Leisure and Death

An Anthropological Tour of Risk, Death, and Dying

Edited by

Adam Kaul and Jonathan Skinner

University Press of Colorado

Louisville

2018 by University Press of Colorado

Published by University Press of Colorado
245 Century Circle, Suite 202
Louisville, Colorado 80027

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The University Press of Colorado is a proud member of the Association of University Presses.

The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State University, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Regis University, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, Utah State University, and Western State Colorado University.

This paper meets the requirements of the ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper).

ISBN: 978-1-60732-788-2 (hardcover)
ISBN: 978-1-60732-728-8 (paperback)
ISBN: 978-1-60732-729-5 (ebook)
doi: https://doi.org/10.5876/9781607327295

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Kaul, Adam R., editor. | Skinner, Jonathan, 1970 editor.
Title: Leisure and death : an anthropological tour of risk, death, and dying / edited by Adam Kaul, Jonathan Skinner.
Description: Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017041388| ISBN 9781607327882 (cloth) | ISBN 9781607327288 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781607327295 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Dark tourism. | DeathSocial aspects.
Classification: LCC G155.A1 L424 2018 | DDC 338.4/791dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017041388

Cover illustration: Postcard of the Cliffs at Moher, County Clare, Ireland, ca. 18901900, from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540. Digital ID: ppmsc 09847.

In memory of Cyril Schfer

Contents

Jane C. Desmond

Adam Kaul and Jonathan Skinner

Maribeth Erb

Keith Egan

Patrick Laviolette

Kathleen M. Adams

Adam Kaul

Shingo Iitaka

Cyril Schfer with Ruth McManus

Ray Casserly

Rachel A. Horner Brackett

Tamara Kohn, Michael Arnold, Martin Gibbs, James Meese, and Bjorn Nansen

Stavroula Pipyrou

Hannah Rumble

James Fernandez

Leisurely Death and Dying?

Body, Place, and the Limits to Leisurea Prologue

Jane C. Desmond

In a world of few universals, death is one. Yet the meanings crafted through engagements with death are, as every anthropologist knows, specific to times, places, and communities. From the anguished to the ghoulish and on to the death-defying risk taking that seems to laugh at inevitability, ethnographic studies of death-related practices reveal a wide variety of engagements, some of which fall into the category of leisure. Yet even within that range, death itself is rarely regarded as a leisure practice, at least for the one dying. In this book, the nexus of death and leisureuncovered, speculated on, and even embraced as playis an illuminating node, a confluence of the unexpected that helps us see anew both ends of the knot: death and leisure.

What happens, the authors and editors of this volume ask, when individuals or groups insert the practices of leisure into the realm of death, so often associated with fear and grief (e.g., by taking photographic selfies with the deceased at a funeral), and vice versawhen people insert death or death-defying risk into the realm of leisure, so often associated with carefree pleasure, joy, play, and recreation, perhaps by searching for zombies while on holiday in Indonesia? By focusing on this leisure-death pairing, can we understand more deeply either of those terms and the associated social practices they refer to? What conceptual frames might we use?

In the last two decades, academic discussions of dark tourism have, as Kaul and Skinner note in their robust introduction to this book, been a key avenue to explore the nexus of death and leisure practices. Tours to sites of carnage, like those associated with the Holocaust, or to sites of murder, like the Texas Book Depository in Dallas, from which President John F. Kennedys fateful assassination shot was taken, have generated a growing sector of contemporary tourism focused on trauma.

The concepts associated with dark tourism and the debates surrounding it have generated insights about how tourists use their leisure time to, as some have argued, enliven their daily lives through an encounter with the dead. But this book demonstrates that, as fecund as those investigations may have been, they do not go far enough in helping us understand the contours and limits of leisurely encounters with death. Those contours, Kaul and Skinner argue, extend far beyond the tourist realm. They write: Through the lens of leisure we are intentionally attaching the study of death to a new, burgeoning set of sub-disciplines in anthropology that cross over into adjacent fields, including the anthropologies of tourism, food, sport, heritage, and religion (19). At times, they note, these arenas slip over into dark tourism, but they also diverge strongly from it. Therefore, we see that death is not always dark, and leisurely engagement with death and sites associated with itas spectatoris not always tourism.

As the reader plumbs the four parts of this book for their shared themes and resonances and then reads across those divisions for bulges and ragged catches of productive mismatch and nonalignment, the very category of leisure itself comes under pressure.

Considering Leisure

Kaul and Skinner point toward the limitations of earlier Marxist interpretations of leisure as nonproductive bourgeois privilege and linger instead on Huizingas leisurely notion of play as an arena of potential imaginings. The books chapters show that leisure can range from death-defying cliff dives (tombstoning at the Devils Frying Pan in Cornwall, UK) to picnicking in a forested field of graves. It can mean inserting remembrance of past death and violence into the sensual pleasures of beach strolling in Palau or the musical mayhem of parades in Northern Ireland. It can mean the disciplined daily walking of pilgrimage (whether in the religious or secularly spiritual sense) traversing the nearly 800 kilometer Camino de Santiago in northwestern Spain to its ending point at the sepulcher of Saint James in Santiago de Compostela, where solemn commitment mixes with the hedonistic pleasures of end-of-day tongue-satisfying wines.

What this range of practices has in common is that somewhere in each experience is an encounter with the dead or with the notion of dying. This can come imaginatively, through historical resonance of the place or through encountering the material presence of the deadfor example, standing among the clean and artfully arranged skulls and bones of 20,000 long dead on a tour to a centuries old ossuary in Oppenheim, Germany, seeking what many tourists there call transcendence.

What can we gain by calling all of these disparate practices leisure? Is this term serviceable just because we lack another category? The implicit (residual) dividing line here is still between work and non-work, it seems, or required and optional behaviors. Immediately, exceptions flood in to smudge those divisions, as recent discussions of leisure reveal. We can understand walking the Camino toward the relics of a dead saint as working on our spirituality, deepening our capacity for self-knowledge. Should we reconfigure the nexus? What if we turn the focus onto the questions what is gained, by whom, and why from these practices?

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