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Bestattungswesen und Bevölkerungsbewegungen in Nord-Nigeria : Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der Philosophie an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität zu München.
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ISBN: 3876730805 Year: 1982 Publisher: München Klaus Renner


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Des cadavres et des hommes ou L'art d'accomoder les restes
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ISBN: 2884570071 Year: 2000 Volume: 7 Publisher: Genève Musée d'ethnographie de Genève


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Bangwa funerary sculpture.
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ISBN: 0715605178 Year: 1971 Publisher: London Duckworth


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La mort vue autrement.
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ISBN: 2843240840 9782843240843 Year: 1999 Publisher: Le Plessis-Robinson Synthélabo

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François Dagognet et Tobie Nathan ont décidé de travailler ensemble sur le problème de la mort car il leur semblait que les textes actuellement disponibles étaient insuffisants : le deuil était renvoyé à une question psychologique, à la souffrance psychique. Or, François Dagognet et Tobie Nathan ont un point de départ qui leur est commun : l'importance accordée aux objets. Pour Tobie Nathan, si l'on veut comprendre les problèmes posés à des personnes par un deuil, il faut regarder comment on a traité le corps et les biens qui appartenaient au défunt : voilà le notaire dans la situation du psychothérapeute ! Pour François Dagognet, il faut d'abord analyser les pratiques funéraires puisque la mort est avant tout un phénomène social et humain total, plus encore qu'un instant décisif de la vitalité qui se termine. François Dagognet et Tobie Nathan ont écrit de manière alternative, se répondant et argumentant tout au long des chapitres de ce livre.


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Langsamer Abschied : Tod und Jenseits im Kulturvergleich.
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ISBN: 3882703717 Year: 1989 Publisher: Frankfurt Museum für Völkerkunde

Going into darkness : fantastic coffins from Africa.
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ISBN: 0500278393 Year: 1995 Publisher: New York Thames and Hudson

On the meaning of death : essays on mortuary rituals and eschatological beliefs.
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ISBN: 9155422748 Year: 1988 Publisher: Stockholm Almqvist och Wiksell


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Les usages funéraires et la mission de l'église : une étude anthropologique et théologique des rites funéraires au Rwanda.
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ISBN: 9024233208 Year: 1990 Publisher: Kampen J. H. Kok

Death and the regeneration of life
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ISBN: 0521248752 0521270375 1316040860 0511607644 9780521270373 9780511607646 Year: 1982 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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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.

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