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It is a classical anthropological paradox that symbols of rebirth and fertility are frequently found in funerary rituals throughout the world. The original essays collected here re-examine this phenomenon through insights from China, India, New Guinea, Latin America, and Africa. The contributors, each a specialist in one of these areas, have worked in close collaboration to produce a genuinely innovative theoretical approach to the study of the symbolism surrounding death, an outline of which is provided in an important introduction by the editors. The major concern of the volume is the way in which funerary rituals dramatically transform the image of life as a dialectic flux involving exchange and transaction, marriage and procreation, into an image of a still, transcendental order in which oppositions such as those between self and other, wife-giver and wife-taker, Brahmin and untouchable, birth and therefore death have been abolished. This transformation often involves a general devaluation of biology, and, particularly, of sexuality, which is contrasted with a more spiritual and controlled source of life. The role of women, who are frequently associated with biological processes, mourning and death pollution, is often predominant in funerary rituals, and in examining this book makes a further contribution to the understanding of the symbolism of gender. The death rituals and the symbolism of rebirth are also analysed in the context of the political processes of the different societies considered, and it is argued that social order and political organisation may be legitimated through an exploitation of the emotions and biology.

Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Death --- Religion --- Fertility cults --- Funérailles --- Mort --- Fécondité --- Rites et cérémonies. --- Cultes --- Funeral rites and ceremonies. --- Death. --- Religion. --- Fertility cults. --- 291.23 --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Funerals --- Mortuary ceremonies --- Obsequies --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Burial --- Cremation --- Dead --- Mourning customs --- Cults, Fertility --- Cults --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- 291.23 Godsdienstwetenschap: eschatologische doctrines; leven na de dood --- 291.23 Godsdienstwetenschap: opstanding; reïncarnatie; metamorfose; zielsverhuizing; paradijs; hel; vagevuur --- Godsdienstwetenschap: eschatologische doctrines; leven na de dood --- Godsdienstwetenschap: opstanding; reïncarnatie; metamorfose; zielsverhuizing; paradijs; hel; vagevuur --- Philosophy --- Philosophical anthropology --- Physiology: reproduction & development. Ages of life --- Cryomation --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology --- Ritus i cerimònies fúnebres --- Religió --- Fecunditat

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"Oud worden en sterven is vandaag een brandend actueel thema en op veel manieren ook een taboe. Ik wil heel graag heel oud worden en zonder angst kunnen sterven. Hoe doet de wereld dat? Op die vraag probeer ik antwoor­den te vinden." - Lieve BlancquaertElke seconde sterven er twee mensen en voor ieder mens heeft doodgaan een andere betekenis, is er een ander verhaal. Last Days is het derde en laatste deel van Lieve Blancquaerts drieluik over de grote momenten uit een mensenleven. In Birth Day en Wedding Day onderzocht ze hoe we onze kinderen verwelkomen en hoe we liefhebben. Met het laatste deel maakt ze de cirkel rond en vertelt ze hoe de wereld afscheid neemt, aan de hand van prach­tige beelden en ontroerende verhalen uit verschillende culturen en godsdien­sten. Meer nog dan een boek over sterven is Last Days een ode aan het leven. Boek bij de gelijknamige reportage­reeks, die vanaf september 2018 zal worden uitgezonden op VRT en VPRO.Bron: https://www.exhibitionsinternational.be/documents/catalog/9789492677587.xml

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