ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Zymology, Embalming, Soltyrei
5 Apr 2018
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Funerals are the occasion for avoiding people or holding parties, for fighting or having sexual orgies, for weeping or laughing, in a thousand different combinations: culturally constructed, meaning of life and death, attitudes towards death are culturally constructed. Influenced by beliefs about life, death, and hereafter: a lot of it depends on depends on the perceived role of individuals after their death, depends on a huge range of things. Is there taboo associated with death and dying: a lot of euphemism to describe death, kick the bucket, passing away, death metaphors are used when not talking specifically about death, eg. Their team killed our team tonight: how we present death in the arts. Period of transition that needs ritual items to make the passage successful: eg. Ghosts and spirits and the restless death (modern context: zombies: death as a continuation of life. Life goes on as normal for the deceased: eg.
