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Living with the dead : how we care for the deceased
Spanning geographies, cultures, and the ages, a moving journey into the physical facts and metaphysical mysteries of how the living care for the dead. Death is universal. It will meet us all. But it's also a practical problem--what do we do with dead bodies? Vibeke Maria and Andreas Viestad live by a cemetery and are daily spectators of its routines, and their fascination with burials has led them to dig deep to examine our relationship with the dead. Taking us on a journey around the world and into the past, the Viestads explore how the deceased are honored and cared for, cremated, and buried. From archaeological sites in Spain, Israel, and Russia to environmentally friendly burials in the United States and Ghana's fantasy coffins, and from cremations without fire to the new industry turning our dearly departed's ashes into diamonds, this empathetic and enthralling book is for anyone who knows their turn is coming, but who'd like a good book for the journey.
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Rites of passage : death and mourning in Victorian Britain
In 'Rites of Passage', acclaimed historian Judith Flanders deconstructs the intricate, fascinating and occasionally - to modern eyes - bizarre customs that grew up around death and mourning in Victorian Britain. Through stories from the sickbed to the deathbed, from the correct way to grieve and to give comfort to those grieving to funerals and burials and the reaction of those left behind, Flanders illuminates how living in nineteenth-century Britain was, in so many ways, dictated by dying.
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Introducción. Del treno al epitafio: el lamento funeral en la antigua Grecia y sus inflexiones
El presente número ofrece una selección de investigaciones producidas en el marco del Proyecto Del Treno al Epitafio: Subjetividad, convención social y cruces “genéricos” en las formas poéticas del lamento en la Grecia Antigua. Inflexiones financiado por la ANPCYT (PICT 2020 Serie A 02425).
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Visuality in funeral solemnities of the Radvila (Radziwiłł) family in the 18th century
The research is focused on the funeral solemnities of the Radvila (Radziwiłł) family, including those to which no proper attention has been paid so far in historiography. Attempts are made to reconstruct and evaluate the visuality of the Radvila’s funeral and compare it to the tradition of other nobility solemnities in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The scenery of the Radvila solemnities changed according to the course and spatial context of the rituals. The most of attention was paid to arrangement of a solemn view in Nesvizh and its approaches. Emblems and other images were applied mostly in church interiors and catafalques. Heraldic motives, insignia were extensively applied, metaphoric and metonymic motives were integrated. Catafalque compositions resounded the virtues of the deceased, expressed their eminent background and status. After studying the cases of funeral solemnities of the Radvila family, it can be stated that elements of military visualization were more important than it had been witnessed by earlier research. Such often applied military requisites expressed a connection to the nobility ethos of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, a cultural image of a nobleman-warrior. The importance of the family memory motives in the funeral décor was also noticed. Although images related to a deceased person were used in the décor of solemnity, the general scope of the motives and their application principles reiterated and were in line with the visual rhetoric tradition of funerals in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Although a lot of attention was paid to listing of the décor motives in funeral descriptions, not only their recognisability was considered important. The funeral rhetoric foresaw some visual experience for the viewer, which changed continuously while conducting funeral rituals. The authors of solemnity descriptions noticed and sometimes commented on effects of illumination, shapes and their spatial relations. Dynamic observation, change of a viewer’s position, focused viewing of separate details and the so-called saccadic viewing were foreseen for solemn events. In summary, it can be stated that the research of the Radvila family solemnities revealed the suggestibility of the Baroque culture that was based on a viewer’s visual experience.
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FRAGMENTOS DE \PÁGINAS-FICHAS\ DE LA NOVELA LA DESESPERANZA
En tanto que el desaliño terrible de Balzac me parece detestable: la muerte de Ester, por ejemplo, la muerte de Lucien mismo (de la que nos distrae la estúpida acción de mme. De Serizay), carecen de todo dramatismo, no parecen significar nada para Balzac mismo. Me acosan dudas. ¿Le gusta a Jorge Edwards, a la Marta Rivas, simplemente por el aspecto crónica, porque reflejarían una parte de la realidad, por la parte comeré [sic], cotilleo, chafardeo que indudablemente tiene Balzac y no tiene, digamos, ni Hugo, ni James? Tengo la sensación de que Los Miserables sale de Dickens, sobre todo de Bleak House, que es lo que ahora voy a leer, en cuanto termine La última encarnación de Vautrin. Con las pequeñas peleas intestinas partidistas, esto es imposible, y cada día suceden nuevas cosas que no se saben por los medios de comunicación totalmente dominados por el gobierno, y vivimos al garete, sin dirección y sin orden, y el país no sabe adónde va: esa es la desesperanza. [***] No lo quiero releer, pero creo que lo que escribí anoche sobre perros y policías bien me puede dar la clave definitiva sobre la parte argumental de esta primera parte, que, creo, definitivamente se llamará F U N E R A L1.
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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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Trump vows to help family of Vanessa Guillén
A lawyer and four members of Army Spec. Vanessa Guillén's family spoke to President Trump July 30 about a measure they hope would help improve the reporting process for victims of sexual harassment in the military.
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Martin Luther King III speaks at the funeral of John Lewis in Selma
The son of Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at John Lewis's funeral in Selma, Ala. July 25. A funeral in his hometown of Troy, Ala., was held earlier in the day.
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