Culture And The Rites Rights Of Grief

Author : Zbigniew Białas,Paweł Jędrzejko,Julia Szołtysek
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443852906

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Culture and the Rites/Rights of Grief by Zbigniew Białas,Paweł Jędrzejko,Julia Szołtysek Pdf

Although generally resented and deemed unfavourable for individuals, societies and nations, grief, grievance, and grieving, along with a complex list of epithets that could, under varying circumstances, accompany them – racial grief, political grievance, protracted grieving, chronic grief, traumatic, unresolved grievance – nevertheless occupy a significant place in culture and its manifestations in literature, art, history, science, and politics. Culture and the Rites/Rights of Grief offers an intellectual excursion into realms of potentially regenerative problematics, too frequently dismissed without due consideration. In this light, the volume constitutes a weighty contribution to the field of literary and cultural studies. First and foremost, however, Culture and the Rites/Rights of Grief is to be intellectually enjoyed by readers with an interest in present-day literary, cultural and political phenomena, at the intersection of which grief and grieving execute an imposing presence, albeit one that remains as indeterminate and flitting as the nature of contemporary cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary encounters.

Author : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781039001565

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Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Pdf

From the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of We Should All Be Feminists and Americanah, a profound reckoning with loss, written in the wake of her father’s death. During the brutal summer of 2020, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s beloved father, a celebrated professor at the University of Nigeria and an irreplaceable figure in a close-knit family, succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure. Notes on Grief is Adichie’s tribute to him, and a moving meditation on loss. Here Adichie offers a candid snapshot of the shock, loneliness, and disillusionment that followed the news of her father’s death. Her family, unable to be together except for on video calls, struggles to go through the rites of mourning amid a global crisis of unimaginable scale. As Adichie wrestles with his passing, she recalls with vivid, poignant detail who her father was: a remarkable survivor of the Biafran war, a man of kindness and charm, and a fierce supporter of his youngest daughter. Here is a uniquely personal, profound work of remembrance and hope by one of today’s luminaries—a book to bring us together in a time when we need it most.

Author : Colin Murray Parkes,Pittu Laungani,William Young
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
ISBN : 9781134789788

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Death and Bereavement Across Cultures by Colin Murray Parkes,Pittu Laungani,William Young Pdf

All societies have their own customs and beliefs surrounding death. This handbook explains how to offer appropriate and sensitive support to those from other cultures who are dying or bereaved.

Author : Judith Karen Fenley,Oberon Zell
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738755397

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Death Rights and Rites by Judith Karen Fenley,Oberon Zell Pdf

Reclaim the Right to a Sacred, Sustainable Death Exploring the spiritual and legal aspects of alternative death-ways, home funerals, and green burial Death Rights and Rites presents practical information and questions for approaching death and dying with a sense of sacred meaning. You will discover ideas for navigating the spiritual and legal issues related to home-based dying, home funerals, and alternative burial methods. Reverend Judith Karen Fenley offers insights into approaching relevant legal frameworks with respect while assisting your loved one in ways that support the best medical care, the natural environment, and the emotional needs of the community. Explore ideas for memorial services and ways to be open to spontaneous rituals for letting go, preparing for death, being at peace, and more. It is possible to manifest your deepest values before, during, and after death. Death Rights and Rites shares examples and provides support as you explore final transitions that are environmentally conscious and spiritually meaningful. Includes a foreword by Jerrigrace Lyons, founder of Final Passages: The Institute of Conscious Dying, Home Funeral & Green Burial Education and an epilogue by Oberon Zell, cofounder of the Church of All Worlds

Author : Brandy Schillace
Publisher : Pegasus Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1681773244

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Death's Summer Coat by Brandy Schillace Pdf

Death is something we all confront—it touches our families, our homes, our hearts. And yet we have grown used to denying its existence, treating it as an enemy to be beaten back with medical advances.We are living at a unique point in human history. People are living longer than ever, yet the longer we live, the more taboo and alien our mortality becomes. Yet we, and our loved ones, still remain mortal. People today still struggle with this fact, as we have done throughout our entire history. What led us to this point? What drove us to sanitize death and make it foreign and unfamiliar?Schillace shows how talking about death, and the rituals associated with it, can help provide answers. It also brings us closer together—conversation and community are just as important for living as for dying. Some of the stories are strikingly unfamiliar; others are far more familiar than you might suppose. But all reveal much about the present—and about ourselves.

Author : Paul C. Rosenblatt,R. Patricia Walsh,Douglas A. Jackson
Publisher : [New Haven, Conn.] : HRAF Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Bereavement
ISBN : UOM:39015008889688

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Grief and Mourning in Cross-cultural Perspective by Paul C. Rosenblatt,R. Patricia Walsh,Douglas A. Jackson Pdf

Author : Udi Lebel,Eyal Lewin
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498513722

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The 1973 Yom Kippur War and the Reshaping of Israeli Civil–Military Relations by Udi Lebel,Eyal Lewin Pdf

This book examines the rise of identities and agents that were formed after the 1973 Yom Kippur War and highlights the effects they had on the formation of Israeli policy. This book forms a study that connects sociology, political psychology, international relations, and the field of culture studies.

Author : Hania A.M. Nashef
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351387491

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Palestinian Culture and the Nakba by Hania A.M. Nashef Pdf

The Nakba not only resulted in the loss of the homeland, but also caused the dispersal and ruin of entire Palestinian communities. Even though the term Nakba refers to a singular historic event, the consequence of 1948 has symptomatically become part of Palestinian identity, and the element that demarcates who the Palestinian is. Palestinian exile and loss have evolved into cultural symbols that at once help define the person and allow the person to remember the loss. Although accounts of the Palestinians’ experience of the expulsion from the land are similar, the emblems that provoke these particular memories differ. Certain mementos, memories or objects help in commemorating the homeland. This book looks at the icons, narratives and symbols that have become synonymous with Palestinian identity and culture and which have, in the absence of a homeland, become a source of memory. It discusses how these icons have come into being and how they have evolved into sites of power which help to keep the story and identity of the Palestinians alive. The book looks at examples from Palestinian caricature, film, literature, poetry and painting, to see how these works ignite memories of the homeland and help to reinforce the diasporic identity. It also argues that the creators of these narratives or emblems have themselves become cultural icons within the collective Palestinian recollection. By introducing the Nakba as a lived experience, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Middle East Studies, Cultural Studies, Literature and Media Studies.

Author : Martine Raibaud,Ionut Untea,Micéala Symington
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443875028

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Cultures in Movement by Martine Raibaud,Ionut Untea,Micéala Symington Pdf

The contributors to this volume encourage a re-thinking of the very notion of culture by examining the experiences, situations and the representations of those who chose – or were forced – to change cultures from the nineteenth century to the present day. Beyond a simple study of migration, forced or otherwise, this collective work also re-examines the model of integration. As recent entrants into new social settings may be perceived as affecting the previously-accepted social equilibrium, mechanisms encouraging or inhibiting population flows are sometimes put in place. From this perspective, “integration” may become less a matter of internal choice than an external obligation imposed by the dominant political power, in which case “integration” may only be a euphemism for cultural uniformity. The strategies of cultural survival developed as a reaction to such a rising tide of cultural uniformity can be seen as necessary points of departure for an ever-growing shared multiculturalism. A long-term voluntary commitment to make cultural boundaries more flexible and allow a more engaged individual participation in the process of defining the self and finding its place within a culture in movement may represent a key element for cultural cohesion in a globalized world.

Author : Carolyn Kitch,Janice Hume
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135862138

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Journalism in a Culture of Grief by Carolyn Kitch,Janice Hume Pdf

This book considers the cultural meanings of death in American journalism and the role of journalism in interpretations and enactments of public grief, which has returned to an almost Victorian level. A number of researchers have begun to address this growing collective preoccupation with death in modern life; few scholars, however, have studied the central forum for the conveyance and construction of public grief today: news media. News reports about death have a powerful impact and cultural authority because they bring emotional immediacy to matters of fact, telling stories of real people who die in real circumstances and real people who mourn them. Moreover, through news media, a broader audience mourns along with the central characters in those stories, and, in turn, news media cover the extended rituals. Journalism in a Culture of Grief examines this process through a range of types of death and types of news media. It discusses the reporting of horrific events such as September 11 and Hurricane Katrina; it considers the cultural role of obituaries and the instructive work of coverage of teens killed due to their own risky behaviors; and it assesses the role of news media in conducting national, patriotic memorial rituals.

Author : D. Cooper,C. Phelan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137437945

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Motherhood and War by D. Cooper,C. Phelan Pdf

Traditional histories of war have typically explored masculine narratives of military and political action, leaving private, domestic life relatively unstudied. This volume expands our understanding by looking at the relationships between mothers and children, and the varied roles both have assumed during periods of armed conflict.

Author : Wojciech Drąg
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443863421

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Revisiting Loss by Wojciech Drąg Pdf

Loss is the core experience which determines the identity of Kazuo Ishiguro’s narrators and shapes their subsequent lives. Whether a traumatic ordeal, an act of social degradation, a failed relationship or a loss of home, the painful event serves as a sharp dividing line between the earlier, meaningful past and the period afterwards, which is infused with a sense of lack, dissatisfaction and nostalgia. Ishiguro’s narrators have been unable to confine their loss to the past and remain preoccupied by its legacy, which ranges from suppressed guilt to a keen sense of failure or disappointment. Their immersion in the past finds expression in the narratives which they weave in order to articulate, justify or merely understand their experiences. Their reconstructions of the past are interpreted as exercises in misremembering and self-deception which enable them to sustain their illusions and save them from despair. Revisiting Loss is the first book-length study of memory encompassing Ishiguro’s entire novelistic output. It adopts a highly interdisciplinary approach, combining a selection of philosophical (Jacques Derrida, Paul Ricoeur, and Jean Starobinski) and psychological perspectives (Sigmund Freud, Frederic Bartlett, Jacques Lacan, and Daniel L. Schacter). The book offers a thoroughly researched critical survey drawing on all published critical monographs and collections of academic articles on Ishiguro’s work.

Author : Gail Holst-Warhaft
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0674002245

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The Cue for Passion by Gail Holst-Warhaft Pdf

Having set aside age-old ways of mourning, how do people in the modern world cope with tragic loss? Using traditional mourning rituals as an instructive touchstone, Gail Holst-Warhaft explores the ways sorrow is managed in our own times and how mourning can be manipulated for social and political ends. Since ancient times political and religious authorities have been alert to the dangerously powerful effects of communal expressions of grief--while valuing mourning rites as a controlled outlet for emotion. But today grief is often seen as a psychological problem: the bereaved are encouraged to seek counseling or take antidepressants. At the same time, we have witnessed some striking examples of manipulation of shared grief for political effect. One instance is the unprecedented concentration on recovery of the remains of Americans killed in the Vietnam War. In Buenos Aires the Mothers of the Disappeared forged the passion of their grief into a political weapon. Similarly the gay community in the United States, transformed by grief and rage, not only lobbied effectively for AIDS victims but channeled their emotions into fresh artistic expression. It might be argued that, in contrast to earlier cultures, modern society has largely abdicated its role in managing sorrow. But in The Cue for Passion we see that some communities, moved by the intensity of their grief, have utilized it to gain ground for their own agendas.

Author : Joanne Cacciatore,John D. DeFrain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Bereavement
ISBN : 3319139460

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The World of Bereavement by Joanne Cacciatore,John D. DeFrain Pdf

This visionary work explores the sensitive balance between the personal and private aspects of grief, the social and cultural variables that unite communities in bereavement, and the universal experience of loss. Its global journey takes readers into the processes of coping, ritual, and belief across established and emerging nations, indigenous cultures, and countries undergoing major upheavals, richly detailed by native scholars and practitioners. In these pages, culture itself is recognized as formed through many lenses, from the ancestral to the experiential. The human capacity to mourn, endure, and make meaning is examined in papers such as: Death, grief, and culture in Kenya: experiential strengths-based research. Death and grief in Korea: the continuum of life and death. To live with death: loss in Romanian culture. The Brazilian ways of living, dying, and grieving. Death and bereavement in Israel: Jewish, Muslim, and Christian perspectives. Completing the circle of life: death and grief among Native Americans. It is always normal to remember: death, grief, and culture in Australia. The World of Bereavement will fascinate and inspire clinicians, providers, suitable for graduate courses in death and dying, family studies, social work, psychology, and nursing, and researchers in the field of death studies as well as privately-held professional training programs and the bereavement community in general.

Author : Fiona Jane Schopf
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781527526952

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Music on Stage Volume III by Fiona Jane Schopf Pdf

The Music on Stage conferences are a unique engine for interdisciplinary interaction, which is reflected in this compendium of the latest research by international scholars. Scholars and practitioners of operas by Handel, Mozart, Thomas, Chabrier, Korngold and Taktakishvili will find new “readings” from hitherto unexplored contexts and contemporary fine art. Also discussed is operatic lighting and the problematics of traditional lighting schemes apropos recent inventive methodologies. Popular sound development of the late 1960s is highlighted through unique oral transcripts. Other chapters discuss the intermediality of music and social media in the work of Brigitta Muntendorf; the visual transcoding of Wagner’s leitmotif technique; a new theory of Affektenlehre, and the art and politics of the Slovenian conceptual music collective Laibach.