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Death rituals, social order, and the archaeology of immortality in the ancient world : \death shall have no dominion\
\"The twenty-seven essays in this volume consider the rituals and responses to death in prehistoric societies across the world, from eastern Asia through Europe to the Americas, and from the very earliest times before developed religious beliefs offered scriptural answers to these questions\"--Dust jacket flap.
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Governing Death, Making Persons
Governing Death, Making Persons
tells the story of how economic reforms and changes in the
management of death in China have affected the governance of
persons . The Chinese Communist Party has sought to channel
the funeral industry and death rituals into vehicles for reshaping
people into \"modern\" citizens and subjects. Since the Reform and
Opening period and the marketization of state funeral parlors, the
Party has promoted personalized funerals in the hope of promoting a
market-oriented and individualistic ethos. However, things have not
gone as planned.
Huwy-min Lucia Liu writes about the funerals she witnessed and
the life stories of two kinds of funeral workers: state workers who
are quasi-government officials and semilegal private funeral
brokers. She shows that end-of-life commemoration in urban China
today is characterized by the resilience of social conventions and
not a shift toward market economy individualization. Rather than
seeing a rise of individualism and the decline of a socialist self,
Liu sees the durability of socialist, religious, communal, and
relational ideas of self, woven together through creative ritual
framings in spite of their contradictions.
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The dead bird
When they find a dead bird, a group of children buries it in the woods, sings a song to it, and puts flowers on the grave.
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A traditional American Indian death ritual: Developing nursing knowledge through aesthetic exposure
The theoretical and practical application of Boykin and Schoenhofer’s Nursing as Caring: A Model for Transforming Practice (2001) provided a framework for the exploration of an aesthetic project of quilting, which was undertaken in order to explain the death journey for a cherished mentor of American Indian nursing students. In particular, the nursing situation was used to guide the making of the quilt sampler. Aesthetics nested into the teaching-learning process became another way to help students solidify their professional self-identity as caring persons. This research has implications for the intentional development of studying quilting as an aesthetic way to express valuable lessons learned while caring for patients and telling stories. This idea of quilting opens up a line of enquiry into caring that can be expressed through a new and creative medium.
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Commemorative atmospheres: memorial sites, collective events and the experience of national identity
In Australia as elsewhere, shared annual commemorative ceremonies such as those on Anzac Day, 25 April, help to connect residents to particular versions of the nation, to the past and to each other. This article investigates what can be gained by pairing the concept of commemoration - a set of practices and narratives that draw together national identity, collective and individual memory, grief and mourning, regular ritual, collectivity and material, aesthetic representations of war and death - with atmosphere and its dynamic combination of space, sensory experience, affect, individual memory and experience and the material environment. It introduces the notion of 'commemorative atmospheres' to explore how such events 'feel', arguing that spatially-specific affective experience can work to connect individuals to the nation. The article builds on scholarship that explores how memorial sites symbolically express aspects of national history and memory, linking this to accounts of how atmospheres can be constituted by architectural form and the material and aesthetic aspects of space. It uses recent research on Australian Anzac Day ceremonies to identify the different spatial elements that contribute to the moods of these events, and explores how these interweave with first-hand experience of the ceremonies and established national narratives. It also considers the sensory perception of commemorative events, identifying how these aspects link to discursive elements, helping to frame national identity for attendees at these ceremonies and potentially for a wider national audience.
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Corpses, coffins, and crypts : a history of burial
Documents the burial process throughout the centuries and in different cultures. Includes bonus materials.
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Mythological Notions of the Deceased among the Slavic Peoples
Many taboos and a high resistance to change are the hallmark of posthumous rituals and customs among all Slavic peoples, which has helped maintain their archaic nature. According to Slavic beliefs, in the otherworld, the souls of the deceased who were kind-hearted during their lifetime join the group of their ancestors who guard the living, providing them with prosperity and fertility. In return, living descendants had an obligation to periodically organize commemorations for the deceased, invoke memories of them, and make (food) offerings meant for the salvation of their souls. On the other hand, Slavs believed that the deceased who died prematurely or violently, or those who were dishonourable throughout their lives, became “the revenant deceased” or “the impure deceased” and could bring harm, sickness, and death to the living. For these reasons, people tended to prepare all of the dead—particularly the ones whose souls could potentially become members of the “impure” group—adequately for the funeral and to see their souls off from this world following traditional rites. This research is based on the presupposition that, among folk beliefs, customs, and rituals regarding the deceased (and their souls), there is a substratum whose archaic nature reaches back to the period when Slavic peoples lived together. These are folk beliefs and customs which appear in all three groups of Slavic peoples but are not related to any of the predominant religions, primarily Christianity, nor did they emerge under the influences of those religions. The sources used in the research include a published ethnographic corpus of data and scientific papers on posthumous rites among the Slavs. Also taken into account were archaeological, historical, and linguistic sources.
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Death rituals
This text provides an age-appropriate examination of death rituals from cultures both ancient and modern.
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Death Rites and Chinese Culture: Standardization and Variation in Ming and Qing Times
This essay argues for a modification of James L. Watson's influential ideas on official cultural standardization via ritual in late imperial China. Focusing on Watson's introduction to Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China, co-edited with Evelyn Rawski (1988), it refutes Watson's hypothesis that officials deliberately confined themselves to effective reform of death rituals in the period before the corpse's expulsion from the community: gazetteers show that officials tried--and failed--to modify numerous practices, both before and after expulsion. The essay proposes that some reported orthoprax standardization was illusory, resulting from defensive, subversive, or self-deceiving writings of local elites, and it also recognizes forms of unofficial standardization that did not follow Zhu Xi's Family Rituals. In explaining resistance to official standardization, it emphasizes local agency: as key sites of culturally appropriate emotional expression and as important vehicles for upholding and redrawing local status, funerals tended to develop distinct regional patterns and ramifying variation within them.
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