ISBN:
9783319523651
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (296 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Boret, Sébastien Penmellen Death in the Early Twenty-first Century : Authority, Innovation, and Mortuary Rites
DDC:
306.909051
Keywords:
Religion and sociology
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Konferenzschrift 2013
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Konferenzschrift
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Konferenzschrift
Abstract:
Death in the Early Twenty-first Century -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- The Anthropology of Death and Sociocultural Change -- Agency, Authority, and Memory in Changing Mortuary Practices -- Agency -- Authority -- Memory -- Agency, Authority, and the Uses of Tradition -- Personhood, Memory, and Technology -- Individual, Choice, and Identity -- Looking Ahead at the Anthropological Study of Death -- Note -- References -- Part I Culture, Religion, and the Uses of Tradition -- 2 Fear and Prayers: Negotiating with the Dead in Apiao, Chiloé (Chile) -- Guilt versus Innocence: Death, People, and Their Animals -- "Struck by Evil Fate": Toby the Dog -- "The Tragedy": Mueve-Mueve the Bitch -- The Funeral Celebrations -- "What Will the Dead Do to Me?" -- Frightening Dead -- Dreaming the Dead -- Vengeful Souls -- The Day of All Saints and of All Souls -- Protection: Vulnerable Dead and Vulnerable Living -- Alliances -- Conclusion: Remembering, or Forgetting? -- Notes -- References -- 3 Quelling the "Unquiet Dead": Popular Devotions in the Borderlands of the USSR -- The Certainty and Uncertainty of Death -- Secularization and the Links Between Generations -- Lived Religion -- Death Rituals as Lived Religion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 Life After Death/Life Before Death and Their Linkages: The United States, Japan, and China -- The Social Analysis of Life After Death -- Life After Death, Past and Present -- The United States -- Japan -- China -- Life After Death/Life Before Death and Their Linkages -- Notes -- References -- Part II Personhood, Memory, and Technology -- 5 Reincarnation, Christianity and Controversial Coffins in Northwestern Benin -- Background -- Composition of the Person and Reincarnation -- Old and New Times -- Coffins -- Dihuude and the Grave Pot -- Material Transformation
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Being Modern -- Reincarnation Versus "Eternal Life" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6 For the Solace of the Young and the Authority of the Old Death: Photography in Acholi, Northern Uganda -- Background: Of War, Death, and the Visibility of the Dead -- Death Rituals in a Changing Society -- The Visibility of the Dead -- Helping the Children of the Dead -- "He Was Here": The Story of Christopher -- Photographs as Mediations of the Absent and Vessels of Memory -- Reproducing the Authority of the Elders: Generating Familial Memory Through Photography -- Inventing a Family History -- The Perpetuation of the Authority of Elders -- The Social Life of Photographs of the Dead -- The Agency of Photographs -- Photography, Grieving, and the Passing of Time -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 7 Mediating Mortality: Transtemporal Illness Blogs and Digital Care Work -- Methods -- Intersubjective Illness Blogs -- Transtemporal Imaginaries -- Embodied Ambivalence and Digital Care Work -- Networked Remains -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Blogs -- Part III Individual, Choice, and Identity -- 8 Agency and the Personalization of the Grave in Japan -- From Ancestral Graves to Tree Burial -- New Non-Ancestral Grave Systems -- The Creation of Tree Burial -- Negotiating Post-Mortem Identities -- Women's Identity and Posthumous Divorce -- Representations of Conjugal Relationships at the Grave -- Memorialization of Personal Biographies -- People's Own Grave -- Agency and the Personalization of the Grave -- Instrumentality and the Appropriation of Death -- Family Authority -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 9 Remembering the Dead: Agency, Authority, and Mortuary Practices in Interreligious Families in the United States -- Religious Ethics for the Dead in the United States -- Religious Intermarriage -- Differences in Mortuary Practices
Abstract:
Couples' Ideas About the Rituals They Envision -- The "Default Mode" -- Modifying the Tradition -- The Search for Alternatives -- Making Mortuary Ritual Work for Everyone -- Remembering -- Inter-Religious Families and Mortuary Choice -- Notes -- References -- Index
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