title: Continuing bonds and place.
abstract: Where do people feel closest to those they have lost? This article explores how continuing bonds with a deceased person can be rooted in a particular place or places. Some conceptual resources are sketched, namely continuing bonds, place attachment, ancestral places, home, reminder theory, and loss of place. The authors use these concepts to analyze interview material with seven Swedes and five Britons who often thought warmly of the deceased as residing in a particular place and often performing characteristic actions. The destruction of such a place, by contrast, could create a troubling, haunting absence, complicating the deceased's absent-presence.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Sociology , Karlstads Universitet , Karlstad , Sweden.
authors.forename: Annika
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jonsson
authors.affiliation: b Centre for Death and Society, Department of Social and Policy Sciences , University of Bath , Bath , UK.
authors.forename: Tony
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Walter
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003643:Death; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009769:Object Attachment; D013548:Sweden; D006113:United Kingdom