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Bryan Road @ Mile 5 Road, Alton, Texas, USA, August 2022. Composition and photographs by the author.
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This is an essay about how the material remains of automobile crashes remain in place to give road trauma a performative dimension through material objects. The paper draws on two decades of fieldwork on multiple roadside shrines throughout the American Southwest, but focuses on the site of the 1989 Alton school bus crash, which claimed the lives o...
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... the body and the tattoo dies with it. If the shrine works like a tattoo, it is crucial to notice that the tattoo is changing as the "skin" it is inscribed upon is also changing (see Figure 5). You can see this in the way the memorial is splitting apart, where the granite piece holding the date and the names of the dead is separating from the pavilion containing the Jesus statue. ...
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