The authors challenge theories that put the body at the centre of identity, going 'beyond the body' to highlight the persistence of self-identity even when the body itself has been disposed of or is missing.
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"This book explores the emotional problems patients, relatives, close friends and professionals experience and the support they need when someone is dying. It focuses on the skills required to support the patient and to provide pre- and post-bereavement counselling for relatives…
Death and grief are a natural part of human development. However, the meaning of death and how individuals react to it is deeply embedded in their cultural norms (Osterweis, Solomon, Green, 1984). Emotional expressions to death have been indicated to be non-universal, and cultur…
Between 2002 and 2011, 158 Canadian Forces soldiers died while serving in Afghanistan and were repatriated via Canadian Forces Base Trenton to the Office of the Chief Coroner of Ontario in Toronto for autopsy. The repatriation route took their bodies along Highway 401 in central…
This explorative study of fifty-nine Asian Indian women assesses the relationship between the clinical symptoms of grief culturally prescribed mourning rituals. Three questionnaires were utilized to collect data: General Information Questionnaire, Grief Experience Inventory (GEI…
One of the fundamental changes in the modern era was the coming of the “dying of death” throughout the Western World. Coined by historian James Farrell, this term is used to explain how mourners moved away from sentimental death mores that domesticated the dead body and encourag…
The state uses public funeral practice and large-scale national mourning as an opportunity to affirm cultural and sexual norms as state values, as evidenced in state and military funerals. My dissertation, "Queering U.S. Public Mourning Practice: Funerals, Performance, and the C…
This project connects this author's personal grief narrative with scholarly literature in order to help church leaders and others in the congregation, as they work with families who are experiencing grief due to the death of a child. This paper begins by defining grief, identify…
This dissertation is an ethnography of social personhood among southwestern Korowai speakers of Irian Jaya/West Papua, Indonesia. I argue that Korowai reflexively affirm a “dyad-centric” model of subjectivity and social life, according to which persons are foundationally constit…
This dissertation explores how Anglo-Saxon hagiographers negotiate between didactic prohibitions of sorrow and the generic conventions which encourage the representation of mourning men. I examine cases where an author exploits these conventions to emphasize and thus defend his …
In this dissertation project I look at the politics of memory and mourning as read through the trope of the archive. In doing this, I use the navette or shuttle as a form of transit and as a reading methodology in order to travel on and between texts. The navette is also a weavi…
This study used the assimilation model to elaborate the continuing bonds model of mourning. According to the continuing bonds model of mourning, immigrants dealing with the loss of their native culture incorporate elements of this culture (i.e. their families, friends, identity,…
The mournful quality of apocalyptic literature dealing with the desolation of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem has remained largely unacknowledged, despite the numerous direct references to lamentation, weeping, and traditional mourning practices in them. As Sigmund Fre…
This dissertation addresses the relations among literature and mourning in modern Arabic letters. Yet a relation to irreparable loss does not come to Arabic letters or writings on them from the outside, affecting the reading of something that will have preceded it, and that will…
This dissertation analyzes the poetic and social importance of the classical Urdu marsiyah (mars iyah ) as it is recited in Shi'i Muslim mourning assemblies in India and Pakistan. Marsiyahs commemorates the martyrdom, in 680 C.E., of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson, Imam Husain.…