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Vital Ties - by Molly Hales (Paperback)

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Vital Ties depicts an emergent form of intimacy with the dead mediated by digital technologies.
About the Author: Molly Hales is a medical anthropologist and physician at the University of Chicago.
192 Pages
Social Science, Anthropology

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"Vital Ties is an ethnographic study of the intimate relations between the living and the dead that are sustained by digital media in the United States, Great Britain, and Australia from approximately 2010 to 2020"-- Provided by publisher.

Book Synopsis

Vital Ties depicts an emergent form of intimacy with the dead mediated by digital technologies. In southern Australia, a game developer crafts a virtual reality experience, reuniting his best friend with an avatar of his late father. In Northern California, a woman creates a smartphone app to log moments in which her deceased mother appears. In Chicago, a high school teacher visits her late brother's Facebook page, hypnotized by the shifting content that animates and reanimates him. As digital media offer ways to bring the dead to presence, the living and the dead are haunted in new ways, affecting relationships to both media and death. Lyrical and moving, Vital Ties offers a powerful rethinking of death, memory, and mediation in the digital age.

About the Author

Molly Hales is a medical anthropologist and physician at the University of Chicago. Her work centers on mediation, intimacy, and medicine.

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Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .44 Inches (D)

Weight: .58 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 192

Genre: Social Science

Sub-Genre: Anthropology

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Theme: Cultural & Social

Format: Paperback

Author: Molly Hales

Language: English

Street Date: May 15, 2026

TCIN: 1010890732

UPC: 9781501786662

Item Number (DPCI): 247-40-7831

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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