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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.

Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Death --- Religion --- Fertility cults --- Funérailles --- Mort --- Fécondité --- Rites et cérémonies. --- Cultes --- Funeral rites and ceremonies. --- Death. --- Religion. --- Fertility cults. --- 291.23 --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Funerals --- Mortuary ceremonies --- Obsequies --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Burial --- Cremation --- Dead --- Mourning customs --- Cults, Fertility --- Cults --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- 291.23 Godsdienstwetenschap: eschatologische doctrines; leven na de dood --- 291.23 Godsdienstwetenschap: opstanding; reïncarnatie; metamorfose; zielsverhuizing; paradijs; hel; vagevuur --- Godsdienstwetenschap: eschatologische doctrines; leven na de dood --- Godsdienstwetenschap: opstanding; reïncarnatie; metamorfose; zielsverhuizing; paradijs; hel; vagevuur --- Philosophy --- Philosophical anthropology --- Physiology: reproduction & development. Ages of life --- Cryomation --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology

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Parce qu'ils ont été déplacés et démembrés, on sait peu de choses des monuments funéraires parisiens du Grand Siècle : quelques idées reçues sur la splendeur des œuvres, que l'on se représente à l'image des célèbres monuments de Turenne, Richelieu ou Mazarin, et sur le nombre important des destructions, en général attribuées au vandalisme révolutionnaire. Or ce livre, fondé sur le rassemblement des sources écrites et iconographiques, peint un tableau plus précis et contrasté de ce que furent les tombeaux érigés dans les églises parisiennes aux siècles de Louis XIII et Louis XIV. Peu nombreux, ces monuments étaient variés dans leur forme, leurs matériaux, leurs dimensions et leur emplacement. Pour comprendre cette variété, l'ouvrage offre une réflexion sur les attentes et les regards dont ils furent l'objet. Il propose une vaste enquête historique sur leur réception pendant quatre siècles. Il réinscrit ces œuvres au sein de la pastorale de la mort au Grand Siècle. Il envisage les motivations politiques et sociales de l'art funéraire, pour les souverains Bourbons comme pour les particuliers, posant le problème du rapport entre pratiques sociales et représentations. Enfin, l'ouvrage considère la question de l'invention artistique et du travail de sculpture dans la tension permanente entre les désirs des commanditaires et les propositions des artistes, permettant ainsi de réfléchir à la création artistique dans son rapport aux normes sociales.

grafmonumenten --- Dood --- geschiedenis --- Michelangelo --- Sarazin, Jacques --- Anguier, François --- Le Brun, Charles --- Girardon, François --- Coysevox, Antoine --- 17de eeuw --- 18de eeuw --- Parijs --- Sepulchral monuments --- Sculpture, French --- Death in art --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Christian art and symbolism --- Sepulchral monuments - France - Paris --- Sculpture, French - 17th century --- Christian art and symbolism - Modern period, 1500 --- -grafmonumenten --- -History --- mort --- monument funéraire --- Grand Siècle --- Paris --- sculpture --- History --- grafmonumenten. --- Dood. --- geschiedenis. --- Michelangelo. --- Sarazin, Jacques. --- Anguier, François. --- Le Brun, Charles. --- Girardon, François. --- Coysevox, Antoine. --- 17de eeuw. --- 18de eeuw. --- Parijs.