Cultural Attitudes Toward Death

Je serai fusillé demain. Les dernières lettres des patriotes belges et français fusillés par l'occupant. 1914-1918

by Emmanuel Debruyne

A Passing Glance: Encounters with Deadness and Dying

by Sylwia Chrostowska

published in Beauty and the Abject (Peter Lang)

Skulls, Max Ernst & Benjamin Peret

by Hadrien Rambach

Danses Macabres d'Europe. Bulletin no. 44, January 2012, pp. 20-21

Short study of the book "Je Sublime" by Benjamin Peret (Paris 1936), illustrated with skulls by Max Ernst... Short study of the book "Je Sublime" by Benjamin Peret (Paris 1936), illustrated with skulls by Max Ernst (1891-1976).

Exposer le cadavre de l'ennemi

by Hadrien Rambach

Danses Macabres d'Europe. Bulletin no. 44, January 2012, p. 20

Report of the recent sale of four skulls, apparently displayed in Prague 1621-1848. Report of the recent sale of four skulls, apparently displayed in Prague 1621-1848.

The Undoing of Patriarchy in the Life of Tom Jorde (1922-2011) by Cynthie Garrity-Bond

by Feminism and Religion

Last week I attended the funeral of the one man, who in my feminist musings, was able to image the maleness of God as... more Last week I attended the funeral of the one man, who in my feminist musings, was able to image the maleness of God as father, friend and pastor. If I had thought about it, I would have given him the T-shirt that reads, “This is What a Feminist Looks Like,” but it never occurred to me until now.

Complementarity in this world and the next: gender and agency in Kodi mortuary ceremonies

by Janet Hoskins

'New Ways to Frame the Mammoth Horror': Media First Responders and the Katrina Event

by Sara Knox

Article published in Cultural Studies Review  vol. 14 no. 2  (Sept 2008)

This article explores the state of emergency of 'the Katrina event' with reference to the role of media 'first... more This article explores the state of emergency of 'the Katrina event' with reference to the role of media 'first responders'. While the hyper-productivity of the media could be said to have had a dilatory effect (its recirculation of highly racialised rumour deepening the social panic attendant to the evacuation of the city, complicating matters for the evacuees, and for their would-be benefactors), it also demonstrated a logistical and affective responsiveness to the crisis at a point when little else was being done. Even the media's capacity to 'get it wrong' functions as a demonstration of its productivity; its reach instantiating referred belief those half-credences about which cultural theorist Mark Seltzer writes. I argue below that the performance of the media throughout the Katrina event its mediation of panic, and of the state of emergency worked as a mechanism of technical re-mastery in the face of systemic breakdown.

Would You Mind If I Settled Here?

by Mayu Kanamori

'In Repose': a photo-essay

by Mayu Kanamori

Welcome, sister death: On the remarkable departures of illumined beings

by Ronald L. Boyer

A reprint of one of my first published essays in 1981. Originally published in Laughing Man Magazine (1981). Please ignore typos in recreated version by unknown typist.

This article, originally published years ago in the Laughing Man, a journal of contemporary spirituality, examines... more This article, originally published years ago in the Laughing Man, a journal of contemporary spirituality, examines accounts of the extraordinary manners of death attributed to mystics, saints and sages of numerous spiritual traditions, including Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. 

Morgues et prise en charge de la mort au Sud-Bénin

by Joël Noret

published in Cahiers d'Etudes africaines, 176, 2004

The Viseu and Lamego Clergy: clerical wills and social ties.

by Anísio Miguel de Sousa Saraiva

In ENCONTRO INTERNACIONAL "CARREIRAS ECLESIÁSTICAS NO OCIDENTE CRISTÃO, SÉC. XII-XIV", Lisboa, 2006 - Carreiras eclesiásticas no ocidente cristão : séc. XII-XIV. Lisboa : Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa, 2007. ISBN 978-972-8361-26-6. p. 139-149.

From the documentation collated under the auspices of the Fasti Ecclesiae Portugaliae project, we selected as the... more From the documentation collated under the auspices of the Fasti Ecclesiae Portugaliae project, we selected as the object of this paper the as yet unpublished series of wills of the Viseu and Lamego Sees, penned between the years 1147 and 1325.We focusfocused on the analysis of the final wills inscribed in the testaments of the bishops, dignitaries, canons and other clergy of these two cathedrals, with a particular interest in the bequests through which these clergymen reveal some type of connection to their family group or to other social groups or networks. By means of these data, we study whether the entrance of these clergymen into the Church of Viseu and Lamego implied a breaking off from kinship ties, replacing them with new bonds of confidence and dependence established within the clergy or whether, on the contrary, these men simultaneously continued with distinct levels and modes of relationship, whether within or beyond the Church. Should this latter position be confirmed, we seek to identify the various relational networks and evaluate the influence they exerted on the clergymen’s social life, through the importance that, as testators, they ascribed to these relationships at the moment of preparing for death and dividing up their worldly possessions.

“The very environment militates against denial”: Negotiating Place Through Material Culture

by Ian Brodie

Ethnologies, Volume 27, numéro 2, 2005, p. 189-217

In this article the author reflects on the objects brought into his father’s hospice room in the last eight weeks of... more In this article the author reflects on the objects brought into his father’s hospice room in the last eight weeks of his life. Objects and their placement were continually renegotiated as he moved through various stages of his disease — greater and lesser pain, appetite, freedom of movement, and lucidity, and shifting timeframes for his imminent passing. The author’s father had no direct control over the presence or absence of objects, and little control over their placement, so that the room became a site of polite contestation among the various parties helping him in his final days.