PSY 3101 Lecture 7: Culture Perspectives (Midterm 1)
5 Mar 2016
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No mater the culture, death aitudes rep an efort to raionalize or make sense of death. Characterisic of a society that believes in myths. Death is welcome due to the weariness of life. Death is outside the person and their control. Always the sense that somehow things can be ixed or changed. Dead are powerful beings, therefore there is a deep respect for them. Elaborate funerals constructed to ensure dead passed over and were not a danger to the living. In some cultures the living did not forget the dead. Dead could provide services for the living: communicaion accomplished thru shamans, ancestors served as role models, provided link between living and the gods. Name avoidance was/praciced by some cultures: never menioned, some cultures a living person much change their name if it"s the same as the dead person"s. Other cultures revere dead person name by passing it to new generaion - way to make the name live again.
