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…
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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…
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 the aftermath of Argentina’s last dictatorship (1976-1983), the organisations created by the relatives of the disappeared deployed the trope of a ‘wounded family’. The unspoken rule was that only those related by blood to the missing were entitled to ask for justice. This the…
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 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…
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 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 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…
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 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…
Within the field of public history, memory has become a topic of increasing importance in recent years. Monuments dedicated to the Confederacy have become highly contested and have caused many to call into question the kind of history they represent and how we remember history o…
During the nineteenth century, the American Civil War destroyed the ideal of the good death that permeated throughout the general public. The hope for death at home with family around to hear the deceased’s last words soon was replaced with the soldiers dying alone with stranger…
This thesis examines the eulogies delivered after the death of George Washington in 1799, identifying themes in the texts and motivations of the authors. The death of the first president occurred during a series of national and international events that challenged the procedures…
Psalm 88’s unmitigated cry of anguish, despair, and abandonment has presented a unique theological problem for commentators. From a form critical perspective, the psalm’s most distinctive feature is the absence of a closing vow of praise or certainty of hearing that is a definin…
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.…