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In a society that has seen epochal change over a few generations, what remains to hold people together and offer them a sense of continuity and meaning? In Songs for Dead Parents, Erik Mueggler shows how in contemporary China death and the practices surrounding it have become central to maintaining a connection with the world of ancestors, ghosts, and spirits that socialism explicitly disavowed. Drawing on more than twenty years of fieldwork in a mountain community in Yunnan Province, Songs for Dead Parents shows how people view the dead as both material and immaterial, as effigies replace corpses, tombstones replace effigies, and texts eventually replace tombstones in a long process of disentangling the dead from the shared world of matter and memory. It is through these processes that people envision the cosmological underpinnings of the world and assess the social relations that make up their community. Thus, state interventions aimed at reforming death practices have been deeply consequential, and Mueggler traces the transformations they have wrought and their lasting effects.
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Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Tombs --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Funeral rites and ceremonies.
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Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Funeral rites and ceremonies. --- Secularism --- Secularism. --- Denmark --- Denmark. --- Religious life and customs.
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"This is an aid to anyone who will be called upon to do a funeral for the nearly 43,000 suicides in America each year. This book is designed to assist clergy, chaplains, and other faith leaders as they develop sermons and homilies for a funeral service. Its mandate is to help those searching for inspiration even though they may feel confused or uncertain undertaking such a daunting assignment. Those who plan and lead a funeral service may enable family and friends to understand and participate intentionally in their grief process. Clergy can have a significant impact on how people react to the suicide as well as provide comfort and assistance to those left behind on their journey through grief. Your leadership will influence how the suicide's bereaved are treated by others in the days, weeks, and months following the death. Because suicide does not discriminate by race, socio-economic status, or religion, a broad range of faiths and denominations are represented in this book's sermons, services, and perspectives."--
Memorial service --- Funeral service --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Suicide --- Funeral Rites
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Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient. --- Ancient funeral rites and ceremonies --- Bioarchaeology --- Skeletal remains (Archaeology) --- Human skeleton --- Primate remains (Archaeology) --- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Roman
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Cremation. --- Burning the dead --- Incineration --- Dead --- Funeral rites and ceremonies
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Confucianism and state --- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Confucian --- History
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L’idée du thème de ce trentième et dernier numéro de l’Internationale de l’imaginaire est venue à Chérif Khaznadar en relisant Le Jeu de l’oie (Actes Sud, 2007) de Jean Duvignaud, créateur de la revue, qui y affirme : “Où que l’on soit sur la planète, hier et demain, la fin, la mort n’a jamais été perçue comme une fin, mais comme un passage.”Des peuples de la forêt sibérienne aux Druzes du Sud de la Syrie en passant par les Toraja de l’île de Sulawesi, onze chercheurs sondent le coeur de diverses sociétés en interrogeant le rapport des vivants aux morts.
Funeral rites and ceremonies. --- Bereavement --- Social life and customs.
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In Death, Materiality and Mediation, Barbara Graham analyzes a diverse range of objects associated with remembrance in both the public and private arenas through ethnography of communities on both sides of the Irish border. In doing so, she explores the materially mediated interactions between the living and the dead, revealing the physical, cognitive, emotional, and spiritual roles of the dead in contemporary communities. Through this study, Graham expands the concept of materiality to include narrative, song, senses, emotions, ephemera and embodied experience. She also examines how modern practices are informed by older beliefs and folk religion.
Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Death --- Memory --- Material culture --- Social aspects
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