Funerary Ritual And Symbolism

Author : J. Rasmus Brandt,Håkon Roland,Marina Prusac
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782976400

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Death and Changing Rituals by J. Rasmus Brandt,Håkon Roland,Marina Prusac Pdf

The forms by which a deceased person may be brought to rest are as many as there are causes of death. In most societies the disposal of the corpse is accompanied by some form of celebration or ritual which may range from a simple act of deportment in solitude to the engagement of large masses of people in laborious and creative festivities. In a funerary context the term ritual may be taken to represent a process that incorporates all the actions performed and thoughts expressed in connection with a dying and dead person, from the preparatory pre-death stages to the final deposition of the corpse and the post-mortem stages of grief and commemoration. The contributions presented here are focused not on the examination of different funerary practices, their function and meaning, but on the changes of such rituals – how and when they occurred and how they may be explained. Based on case studies from a range of geographical regions and from different prehistoric and historical periods, a range of key themes are examined concerning belief and ritual, body and deposition, place, performance and commemoration, exploring a complex web of practices.

Author : Deborah Jeanne Shepherd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:34962376

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Funerary Ritual and Symbolism by Deborah Jeanne Shepherd Pdf

Author : Deborah J. Shepherd
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106015814863

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Funerary Ritual and Symbolism by Deborah J. Shepherd Pdf

The Finnish people of the late Iron Age left behind several distinct types of cemetery employing disparate funerary rituals and symbolic texts. Comparison of these sites with ethnohistoric data about eschatology, funerary practice and social organization on the one hand and with the preserved oral tradition of pre-Christian myths and heroic tales on the other suggests that the prehistoric Finns were a shamanistic society deeply immersed in a culture of ancestor worship and belief in spirit beings. This work explains the variation in mortuary ritual and defines the beliefs behind the rites. Economic and sociopolitical factors are considered in delineating the proposed development of the pagan Finnish world view. The place of research on prehistoric religion within the general framework of medieval archaeology is discussed, and lines of inquiry by which interdisciplinary studies may enable and enhance our understanding of proto- and prehistoric ideological systems within cultural continuities are suggested.

Author : Peter Pfälzner,Herbert Niehr,Ernst Pernicka,Anne Wissing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Burial
ISBN : 3447068205

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(Re-)constructing Funerary Rituals in the Ancient Near East by Peter Pfälzner,Herbert Niehr,Ernst Pernicka,Anne Wissing Pdf

The first supplementary volume of the series "Qatna Studien" presents the contributions of an international symposium held at the University of Tubingen in May 2009. This symposium was initiated and organized by the students and scholars of the post-graduate school 'Symbols of the Dead'. The topic of the symposium was to evaluate the possibilities in reconstructing Ancient Near Eastern funerary rituals from available archaeological and textual evidence. Contributors from seven countries discussed many aspects of ritual behaviour linked to death, the after-life and the variations in ritual treatment of the deceased before, during and after the actual burial. Among the many issues raised were questions related to the kinds of rituals linked to death in different cultural surroundings, the intentions of the actors conducting such rituals, their meaning and social importance, the question of ancestors and grave goods, and of grave offerings, the reasons for and the meaning of different burial types, and the theoretical and methodological approaches to ritual. Archaeological case studies were introduced, available textual evidence was presented, and even an ethnographic perspective from Kyrgyzstan is contributed. The archaeological and philological sources presented come from a wide geographical framework including Syria and Northern Mesopotamia, the Syro-Anatolian regions, the Southern Levant, Egypt, and Iran. Their chronological frame spans from the third to the first millennium BC. These contributions will enrich our understanding of the various cultural approaches to death in the Ancient Near East and increase our insight into many aspects of funerary rituals.

Author : Douglas Davies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781474250979

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Death, Ritual and Belief by Douglas Davies Pdf

Death, Ritual and Belief, now in its third edition, explores many important issues related to death and dying, from a religious studies perspective, including anthropology and sociology. Using the motif of 'words against death' it depicts human responses to grief by surveying the many ways in which people have not let death have the last word, not simply in terms of funeral rites but also in memorials, graves, and in ideas of ancestors, souls, gods, reincarnation and resurrection, whether in the great religious traditions of the world or in more local customs. He also examines bereavement and grief, experiences of the presence of dead, near-death experiences, pet-death and the symbolic death played out in religious rites. Updated chapters have taken into account new research and include additional topics in this new edition, notably assisted dying, terrorism, green burial, material culture, death online, and the emergence of Death Studies as a distinctive field. Case studies range from Anders Breivik in Norway, to the Princess of Wales, and to the Rapture in the USA. A new perspective is also brought to his account of grief theories. Providing an introduction to key authors and authorities on death beliefs, bereavement, grief and ritual-symbolism, Death, Ritual and Belief is an authoritative guide to the perspectives of major religious and secular worldviews.

Author : Andreas Schachner,Deborah J. Shepherd,Maria Deoudi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 1841710199

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Funerary Ritual and Symbolism by Andreas Schachner,Deborah J. Shepherd,Maria Deoudi Pdf

Author : Maurice Bloch,Jonathan Parry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1982-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781316582299

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Death and the Regeneration of Life by Maurice Bloch,Jonathan Parry Pdf

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.

Author : Peter Metcalf,Richard Huntington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1991-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521423759

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Celebrations of Death by Peter Metcalf,Richard Huntington Pdf

Machine derived contents note: List of illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction to the second edition -- 1. Preliminaries -- Part I. Universals and Culture: 2. Emotional reactions to death -- 3. Symbolic associations of death -- Part II. Death as Transition: 4. The living and the dead: a re-examination of Hertz -- 5. Death rituals and life values: rites of passage reconsidered -- Part III. The Royal Corpse and the Body Politic: 6. The dead king -- 7. The immortal kingship -- Part IV. Seeing Ourselves Anew: 8. American deathways -- Bibliography -- Index.

Author : Jacques H. Kamstra,H. Milde,K. Wagtendonk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Buddhist eschatology
ISBN : UVA:X000878615

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Funerary Symbols and Religion by Jacques H. Kamstra,H. Milde,K. Wagtendonk Pdf

Author : Nigel Llewellyn
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Art
ISBN : 0948462167

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Art of Death by Nigel Llewellyn Pdf

How did our ancestors die? Whereas in our own day the subject of death is usually avoided, in pre-Industrial England the rituals and processes of death were present and immediate. People not only surrounded themselves with memento mori, they also sought to keep alive memories of those who had gone before. This continual confrontation with death was enhanced by a rich culture of visual artifacts. In The Art of Death, Nigel Llewellyn explores the meanings behind an astonishing range of these artifacts, and describes the attitudes and practices which lay behind their production and use. Illustrated and explained in this book are an array of little-known objects and images such as death's head spoons, jewels and swords, mourning-rings and fans, wax effigies, church monuments, Dance of Death prints, funeral invitations and ephemera, as well as works by well-known artists, including Holbein, Hogarth and Blake.

Author : Douglas J. Davies
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780304338221

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Death, Ritual, and Belief by Douglas J. Davies Pdf

Describing a variety of funeral ritual, from major world religions and from local traditions, this book shows how cultures cope not only with corpses but also create an added value for living through the growth of afterlife beliefs. The key theme of the book is the rhetoric of death -- the way cultures use the most potent weapon of words to bring new power to life. Human identity and its transformation through mortuary rites is explored through the mummies of Chile and Egypt; African sacrificial deaths; Indian cremations; immigrant cemeteries in the USA; ancestor rites in Eastern religions and Mormonism; and the freezing of the dead in cryonics. Research findings are presented on cremation and afterlife beliefs, especially reincarnation, sensing the presence of the dead, and the death of pets in Britain, to show how mortuary rituals are constantly changing in response to death as a major feature of the human environment.

Author : Andrew Philips Adega
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Tiv (African people)
ISBN : 9785501779

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The Ritual Symbolism of Death, Burial and Ku Orôn (inquest) in Tiv Religious Culture by Andrew Philips Adega Pdf

"The Book 'The Ritual Symbolism of Death, Burial and Ku Orôn (inquest) in Tiv Religious Culture' is the outcome of research findings carried out for about eight years. However, the author's fascination of the subject matter dates back earlier. The book examines Tiv funerary practices in Death, burial and Ku Orôn (inquest). To the Tiv, death is not a natural phenomenon; this implies that an agent is usually responsible for the occurrence of death often the mbatsav (witches). As a result when death occurs the Tiv observe the ritual practices of Ku orôn (inquest) in order to find out who is responsible for the death, the reason for causing the death and how to prevent further occurrence of death in the family and to an extent the community as a whole. The book similarly discussed the causes and instrument of death such as ingyato (consent fee), imborivungu (owl pile), ikpindi (flesh debt), tambe (bewitchment) and Bua (cow). These culminate in the examination of the religio-cultural significance of Ku orôn ritual symbolism among the Tiv."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : David L. Bieniek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1944769668

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Candlelight & Blessings by David L. Bieniek Pdf

Death is inevitable, mysterious, and often confusing. At the deathbed, patients and those gathered seek meaning, and many long for a sense of the Spiritual. Yet chaplains and spiritual caregivers have minimal information by which they can determine how to provide support, limited time to develop rapport, and varying expectations from those of the people they serve. Regardless of the religious background of the patient and loved ones gathered at the deathbed, there are elements of symbol and ritual that take on a more pronounced role, and indeed even greater importance as one is facing the end of life. Are there elements and rituals that can be used in most cases that will help the dying feel a connection to something that is larger than themselves and their life?

Author : Sven Cederroth,Claes Corlin,Jan Lindström
Publisher : Ubsaliensis S. Academiae
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015016978978

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On the Meaning of Death by Sven Cederroth,Claes Corlin,Jan Lindström Pdf

Author : Deborah Jeanne Shepherd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951P00434406L

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Funerary Ritual and Symbolism by Deborah Jeanne Shepherd Pdf