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Jonathan Skinner

August 07, 2018

Death by Proxy: Breaking New Ground with Leisure and Death and The Rolling Stones

The deceased are the proxy for us—a stand-in, an unfortunate substitute for our own mortal fears or desires. Their death gives us a subjunctive pause for thought: “What if that were me?”

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October 27, 2017

Jonathan Skinner

Jonathan Skinner is a reader in anthropology at the University of Roehampton and adjunct fellow at the Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies, University of St. Andrews. He is the author of Before the Volcano, editor or coeditor of several books, coeditor of the book series Movement and Performance Studies, and advisor to the arts health charity Arts Care.

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October 27, 2017

Leisure and Death

An Anthropological Tour of Risk, Death, and Dying

August 06, 2018

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