ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Medicalization, January 30, Bride Price
1 Feb 2017
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In uenced by beliefs about life, death, and the hereafter. Death is an enfeebled form of life. Traditional medical view - lack of respiration, pulse and heartbeat. No circulation to or within the brain. Doctor"s presence at the deathbed was rare. Status symbol to die under medical care. Natural death - death at the end of a long life as the result of a clinically identi able disease. Rituals to transition the deceased from the world of the living to the world of the dead. Rituals to reintegrate survivors back into the community. Usually deceased are separated from the living. Mexico day of the dead: have elaborate meals and visit the grave of the decease, reconnect with other relatives. Turning of the bones - madagascar: once every 7 years, not a gloomy affair; more like a wedding than a funeral, exume the bones/body, rewrap them. The deliberate killing of an offspring: direct. Beating, smothering, drowning etc: indirect (passive)
