ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bride Price
4 Jul 2017
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Culture and death: attitudes towards death are culturally constructed, in uences by beliefs about life, death, and the hereafter. How do we define death: traditional medical view. Lack of respiration, pulse, and heartbeat: failure to respond to stimuli, lowered body temperature & stiffness. The harvard criteria for death: unreceptive and unresponsive, no spontaneous movement or respiration, no re exes, a at eeg (electrical activity in the brain) Sunday, january 29, 2017: no circulation to or within the brain. Modern medicalization of death: doctor"s presence at the deathbed was rare, family/religious gure typically present, status symbol to die under medical care, natural death . Death at the end of a long life as the result of a clinically identi able disease. Rituals surrounding death: in many cultures death is unclean", rituals to transition the deceased from the world of the living to the world of the dead.
