No / This book focuses on mortuary practices in the Neolithic Near East to challenge some of the common assumptions about death and the dead body. It explores the way the corpse was treated during the period, in the process raising new questions about identity, personhood, and gender in the past, as well as concepts such as social memory and ‘ancestors’. It also examines the webs of relationships between people, their environments, and their new material world, between humans and animals, and between the living and the dead. Using a case-study approach, the book highlights differences and similarities as well as patterns in archaeological evidence. In addition, it analyses alternative perspectives on gendered identities and family roles, along with human-animal relationships, possible consumption of the human body and animals, and the notion of animals as ancestors. In this chapter, cultural attitudes to death and dying, including practical aspects of dealing with the dead and the emotional reactions of grieving and mourning, are discussed.

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Chan Yuk Wah. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 130-143). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract (English) --- p.ii / Abstract (Chinese) --- p.iii / Acknowledgement --- p.iv / List of Plates --- p.v / Chapter I. --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter II. --- Funeral History and Funerals Today --- p.17 / Chapter III. --- Packaging Traditions: Commercialization of Funerary Services --- p.38 / Chapter IV. --- Management of the Body --- p.57 / Chapter V. --- Management of the Soul --- p.74 / Chapter VI. --- Management of Death Pollution --- p.95 / Chapter VII. --- Conclusion: Social Transformation and Cultural Persistence --- p.111 / Appendices --- p.118 / Plates --- p.124 / Bibliography --- p.130

published_or_final_version / Fine Arts / Master / Master of Philosophy

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Cet ouvrage examina une cérémonie particulière aux Kwagul de Colombie Britannique: le rituel d'initiation hamatsa. Basée sur une recherche effectuée en pays kwagul et enrichie de nombreuses données ethnographiques, la thèse s'appuie au niveau théorique : sur des travaux récents de Lévi-Strauss et de Turner. Afin d'atteindre la structure du rituel per se, nous, l'expurgeons de ses gloses et exégèses. Ses mythologies implicite, et explicite sont analysées. La première réfère à la vision du monde kwagul et à son ethos. L'éthos kwagul est constitué d'un ensemble de thèmes rituels qui tous relèvent du principe de transformation de la mort en la vie. La vision du monde kwagul est à l'image d'un monde zoo ou anthropomorphique doté d'une unique cavité appelée par les kwagul, la bouche. C'est par l'intermédiaire de celle-ci que les transformations s'opèrent. L'analyse des codes culinaires déployés dans les mythes et les rites dévoile que la mort et la Création sont exprimées par des métaphores orales. La mythologie explicite composée du paradigme mythique Baxbakwalanuxsiwae est analysée sur une période d'un siècle, confirmant certaines caractéristiques de l'évolution des mythes. Le mythe exprime une exogamie démesurée à laquelle s'oppose sa limite inférieure; le rapprochement trop étroit d'un frère et d'une soeur que les Bella Bella et les Kwagul illustrent dans la phase finale de leurs mythes et de leurs rites. La métaphore cannibalique est analysée sous l'angle de la parenté; elle circonscrit le champ de l'alliance acceptable par la culture. La femme est perçue alors comme le médiateur entre les humains et les ogres surnaturels. Evoquant le thème de la grande naissance, les différentes séquences du rituel hamatsa sont analysées chronologiquement. Au cours de son initiation, afin de surpasser sa "mort", l'initié devait manger la "mort". A la mort symbolique du novice correspond une naissance symbolique suivie d'une socialisation réelle. La comparaison mythe/rite permet finalement de conclure que la démarche rituelle ne répète pas systématiquement la démarche de la pensée mythique, mais au contraire l'inverse. Cette inversion est due à l'emploi du morcellement et de la répétition qui fait que le rite remonte le mythe à contresens. / Arts, Faculty of / Anthropology, Department of / Graduate

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The thesis is an ethnographic account of the belief system surrounding disease and curing among the Kuna Indians of San Blas, Panama. It is an attempt to describe this system in its own terms, and to interpret its meaning by attending to the various symbolic, ritual, and social contexts in which it finds expression. Above all, the ethnography strives to understand Kuna theories of disease causation and cure. Theoretical assumptions and methodological suggestions have been borrowed from the anthropological sub-fields of ethnoscience, symbolic anthropology, and sociolinguistics. The ethnography is loosely organized around the natural progression taken by the Kuna when they discover that someone has fallen ill, diagnose his illness, and then set about devising strategies for restoring him to health. Earlier chapters scrutinize the component parts of this belief system, and these are brought together in a synthetic manner in the penultimate chapter. The ultimate theoretical objective is to demonstrate that cultural symbols can only be properly understood when viewed within the natural context in which they are used. The final chapter deals with cultural and social change in San Blas, with special emphasis on the island of Ustuppu, over the past 70 years.

Sze Ki Shan Ida. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2000-2001, design report." / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 63). / Library's copy: leaf 31 missing. / Preface --- p.01 / Table of content --- p.02 / Initiation --- p.03 / Exposition --- p.04 / Synthesis of loss --- p.04 / Soft disappearance --- p.06 / Tai O experience --- p.07 / Tragedy in architecture --- p.09 / Thesis statement --- p.10 / Conceptual framework --- p.11 / Redefine Identity for the place of death --- p.11 / Juxtaposition of contradictions --- p.12 / Investigation of lost space --- p.13 / Architecture to reconstruct death --- p.14 / Hapticity & time --- p.15 / Synthesis --- p.17 / Meaning of death --- p.17 / Death is loss / Death Ritual: a life policy against fragility / Meaning of death architecture --- p.19 / Search for immortality / Transition and transformation / Power of weakness --- p.22 / "Recognition, acceptance & rebirth" / Architecture as memento mori / Existing state --- p.24 / Background --- p.24 / Hong Kong death culture / Implication of changes / Site justification --- p.32 / Site analysis [regional] --- p.34 / Site analysis [local] --- p.44 / Client profiles --- p.51 / Future state --- p.53 / Design issues --- p.53 / Formulation of programs --- p.56 / List of users & activities --- p.57 / Schedule of accommodation --- p.58 / Appendix --- p.59 / Precedence --- p.59 / Igualada Cemetery / Brion Cemetery / Location of places of death --- p.62 / Bibliography --- p.63

Extrait de : Th. : Lett. : Paris 4 : 1980. / Bibliogr. p. [539]-573. Notes bibliogr. Index.