DEATHfeldmekj@lavc.edu

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LAVC T Th 10-11 AM

Reminders

• Exam 2: Thursday

• Today, death our most morbid class

• Come see me during office hours

• How is the Ritual Observation project going?

When are the Dead, Dead?

• Heart vs. Brain

• Where is your soul located?

• Effects our society-Organ Donation

• What do you guys think?

Ancestors

Why?

• Community & Family

Can be a moral force; go to them in times of need/keep people in line

Agricultural Societies

AncestorsCommunity & Family Ties

AncestorsMoral Force

AncestorsAgricultural Societies

Yoruba Ancestors Pg. 168

• Ancestors help the living

• Build Shrines/Perform Rituals

• Family: limited number; lived a good life/can be good or bad

• Some become Deified

Ghosts

• Different from ancestors

• Mostly feared? What do you think?

• Left before their time/trouble moving on

• Pg.172 lets check out the Dani

FUNERAL RITUALSRitual: Separation dead/living

Rite of Passage Social Rite of Intensification: reinforces culture

values & beliefs

Tana Toraja Kelli Swazey

• Why do the Tana Toraja publicly share death? How is death considered a social process?

• How does funeral ritual highlight a group members status?

• How is death used as a social rite of intensification of the Tana Toraji? How is death a moment of “self awareness”?

• What makes a person as an ancestor?

Other Ways of Handling the Body

• Burial

Where? When? How? With Who? With What? status/religion/warrior/ect..

• Cremation: many reasons why

• Mummification: Egyptians, body preservation

• Exposure: Inuit of Arctic, environment ,

Death HolidaysWe do it too…

• Memorial day • Halloween • Day of the Dead

Dia De Los Muertos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFt8-WdstQA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl25Uf9RpdA

• Syncretic Holliday

• Now Celebrated on all Saints/Souls day

• True celebration of life

• What the dead loved in life