ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Omen, Penetrating Trauma, Bride Price
22 Mar 2017
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Coffins on cliff-faces in the philippines, china, and indonesia: no one will disturb them, almost a display , remembrance, scare off other people markers of territory. Kelly swazey ted talk life doesn"t end with death. Indonesian community experience death as a gradual social process. Funerals characterized by: amount of animals that are sacrificed in the name of the deceased, last a few days to a few weeks publicly shared transition. Death = universal experience but not experienced in the same way culturally rooted. Symbolically fed and cared for rituals that indicate the transition from this life into the afterlife. Sacrificial buffalos children invest money in this to repay their debt to their parents for all their investment. Don"t put much stock in efforts to prolong life in the face of debilitating illness or age thread that unspools to its natural end. Story goes on long after their body does.
