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Title: | Folkloristic Ways of Looking at - and Beyond - the Recent Phenomenon of Roadside Memorials, Crosses and Floral Tributes | Contributor(s): | Ryan, John Sprott (author) | Publication Date: | 2004 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/1870 | Abstract: | It is postulated at various points in the following survey paper that most of the significant changes in the manifested public sudden and accidental death would appear to have taken place in the last two generations. Television, brutal little wars, terrorism and Americanization/ globalism and its habit of publicity of 'killing fields' and of the shocking and the brutal may all be contributory causes to popular culture's sacralisation of the places where such death has occurred or been deliberately commemorated. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Australian Folklore, v.19, p. 52-67 | Publisher: | Australian Folklore Association, Inc | Place of Publication: | Australia | ISSN: | 0819-0852 | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal | Publisher/associated links: | http://www.une.edu.au/folklorejournal/ |
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