The Death of Cultures
In: The new leader: a biweekly of news and opinion, Band 83, Heft 2, S. 12-14
ISSN: 0028-6044
In: The new leader: a biweekly of news and opinion, Band 83, Heft 2, S. 12-14
ISSN: 0028-6044
In: The Massachusetts review: MR ; a quarterly of literature, the arts and public affairs, Band 40, Heft 1, S. 31-43
ISSN: 0025-4878
In: Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science 9
In: Springer eBook Collection
In: Springer eBooks
In: Social Sciences
The Evolution of Funerary Ritual in Urbanizing China -- Belief in Karma and Mokṣa at the End of Life in India- Death and the Afterlife in Japan -- Return to Nature? Secularism and Politics of Death Space in Hong Kong -- Death and Dying: Belief, Fear and Ritual in Vietnamese Culture -- Negotiating Traditions and Modernity: Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore -- The Bureaucratic Professionalization of Funeral Rites in Tehran's Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery -- Death and Burial Practices in Contemporary Zulu Culture, South Africa -- Death in Botswana: Life Among the Ashes -- Ancestors and Death: From West Africa to Southwest Europe -- Living Coffins and Death Among the Ga of Ghana -- The Yoruba of Nigeria and the Ontology of Death and Burial -- Transformation of Funeral Rituals in Togo -- Rituals Around Life and Death in Mexico; The Day of the Dead -- Continuity and Ruptures in Brazilian Funeral Rites -- The Right to a Dignified Death in Argentina -- Superstar-Saints and Wandering Souls: The Cemetery as a Cultural Hotspot in Latin American Cities -- He taonga tuku iho: Indigenous End of Life and Death Care Customs of New Zealand Māori -- Communicating with the Dead in an Australian Aboriginal Culture: The Tiwi from Melville and Bathurst Islands -- Death and Dying in American Indian Cultures -- The Beauty of the Afterlife Among the Inuit of Nunavut -- Eternity Calling: Modernity and the Revival of Death and the Afterlife
In: Sociological review monograph series
In: Studies in law, politics, and society, Band 28, S. 97-115
ISSN: 1059-4337
Law attempts to govern life & death through the appropriation of images that give a fantasy of control over death. The functioning of the thanatopolitical state is underpinned by a perceived control over death & its representation. This means of controlling death is challenged when someone wishes to die in an untimely fashion. Death may be timely when the state engages in the officially sanctioned killing of the death penalty but not when the individual assumes such a power to decide. When an individual goes before the law to obtain a right to die, instead of confronting death, legal institutions evade the issue & instead talk about life, & its sacred & inviolable nature. Yet, in the same move, many exceptions to this sacred quality of life are carved out. One can see an example of this phenomenon in the area of Supreme Court decision making on physician-assisted suicide. In Washington v. Glucksberg, the applicants had died by the time of the Supreme Court's decision. Where did they go? Were they ever really there for the law? The Supreme Court decision attempts to recompose the notion of identic wholeness in the face of bodies associated with death & decay. It is, in other words, an attempt to arrest the process of death by composing a narrative that valorizes life. The case becomes a narrative about the threat to life or, more precisely, a threat to a particular way of life. In other words, the state's interest in preserving life becomes the interest in preserving the life of the state. The state must live on. The question then moves from being one of whether the individual applicant in a case concerning physician-assisted suicide should live or die to one that asks should we the court live or die? 32 References. Adapted from the source document.
In: Studies in Law, Politics and Society, S. 97-115
In: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture 12
The Latin root of the English word culture ties together both worship and the tilling of the soil. In both interpretations the outcome is the same: a rightly-directed culture produces either a bountiful harvest or falls short of the mark, materially or spiritually. This volume offers a critical examination of the nature and depth of our contemporary cultural crisis, focused on its lack of traditional orientation and moral understanding.
In the past, culture was a kind of vital consciousness that constantly rejuvenated and revivified everyday reality. Now it is largely a mechanism of distraction and entertainment. Notes on the Death of Culture is an examination and indictment of this transformation - penned by none other than the Nobel winner Mario Vargas Llosa, who is not only one of our finest novelists but one of the keenest social critics at work today. Taking his cues from T. S. Eliot - whose treatise Notes Towards the Definition of Culture is a touchstone precisely because the culture Eliot aimed to describe has since vanished - Vargas Llosa traces a decline whose ill effects have only just begun to be felt. He mourns, in particular, the figure of the intellectual: for most of the twentieth century, men and women of letters drove political, aesthetic, and moral conversations; today they have all but disappeared from public debate. But Vargas Llosa stubbornly refuses to fade into the background. He is not content to merely sign a petition; he will not bite his tongue. A necessary provocateur, here vividly translated by John King, provides an impassioned and essential critique of our time and culture.
In: University of Southern Denmark studies in history and social sciences 457
Includes bibliographical references
In: Emerald studies in death and culture
In: Emerald studies in death and culture
In: Routledge interpretive marketing research 22