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    Keepsake : meanings, practices and tactics of making and preserving memory
    (2010) Sağdıç, Kalben
    This study is an attempt to conceptualize what a “keepsake” is within the context of subjective and social usage in relation to death and mourning. The phenomenon of memory keeping is examined not only as a subjective collation but as an objectifying, inalienable practice during which material qualities and mnemonic value of the keepsake are revealed. Ancestral memorials‟ encoding continuity between and across generations, types of display of a keepsake as well as types of mourning/object keeping, are the focai of the study. A test study aiming to provide an understanding and a basis for more profound researching of keepsake as a social phenomenon is conducted, borrowing methods of ethnography and sociology. The discourse of “object-cathexis” and the “perennial nature of objects” as Zygmunt Bauman argues are discussed in order to analyze human-object relations within the framework of mourning.
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    Representing absence and the absent one : remembering and longing through mourning photography
    (2013) Aytemiz, Pelin
    Exploring different practices of photographing / representing the dead, this dissertation, deals with the question how the deceased loved ones are remembered and longed for through photography in the context of family. Approaching mourning as a long-term experience in the life of mourners, the primary objective of this dissertation is to analyze the alterations of the absence/presence of the mourned one in mourning photography, using photographs found from archives and antique markets as primary source material. In the light of the critical literature on photography, studies of material culture and memory in relation to photography and classical and contemporary mourning studies, this dissertation aims to expand the parameters of the discussion on the relationship between different types of photography and mourning, remembering, longing for, and bidding farewell to the dead and to refine a new area of study concerning death photography in Turkey