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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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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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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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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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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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Thank You, I'm Sorry
The ice had all melted and he considered the watery rum with a look of disapproval. When he reached over the table with the bottle, I put my hand over my empty glass and shook my head. When she got there, she draped herself over my father's casket and cried out once more with that animal voice. When I looked at her, she put her head down and wouldn't make eye contact with me.
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İnanç Sistemi Temelinde Gagauzlar’da Ölüm ve Cenaze
Kişisel gelişimin hangi noktasında olunursa olunsun ölüm olgusu, insanın, bireysel olarak başa çıkmakta en çok zorlandığı gerçekliktir. Bu noktada insan; toplumsallığa ve toplumsallığın oluşmasında en önemli etkenlerden olan inanç unsurlarına her zamankinden fazla ihtiyaç duyar. Toplumlar, bütünlükçü bir anlam ilişkisi çerçevesinde bir araya getirdiği inanışlar aracılığıyla ölüm olgusuna dair ortak bir kavrayış meydana getirir. Böylece birey, ait hissettiği topluluğun desteğiyle ölüm korkusunun üstesinden gelmeye çalışır. Cenaze törenleri ise bir toplumun ölüm olgusuna ilişkin yarattığı kavrayışa temel olan bileşenleri somut göstergelere dönüştürür. Bir toplumun cenaze kültürünü izleyerek onu meydana getiren inanışları ve kaynaklarını tespit edebilme şansı buluruz. Bu çalışmada, kökleri Orta Asya’ya dayanan, Anadolu Selçukluları’yla tarihsel bir geçmişi olan ancak Hristiyan Balkan kültürü içinde gelişen bir topluluk olarak Gagauzlar’ın, ölüm ve cenaze kültürü incelenmiştir. Yöntem olarak literatür taramasının yanı sıra Gagauz Özerk Yeri’nde yaşayan 7 kadınla yapılan görüşmelerin kayıtlarından faydalanılmıştır.
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A Neolithic ground stone tool as an Early Iron Age funerary gift
The authors describe a Neolithic ground stone adze, retrieved from an Early Iron Age burial (c. 700-550 BC) at the urnfield cemetery in Mifosfawice, south-western Poland. This artefact yields an interesting example of an extended tool biography.
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