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Titre Le retour des morts
Auteur Daniel Fabre
Mir@bel Revue Etudes rurales
Numéro no 105-106, 1987 Retour des morts
Rubrique / Thématique
Le retour des morts
Page 9-34
Résumé anglais The Return of the Dead Just as anthropologists recognized, with Tylor in 1871, that the concepts of death and culture were closely related, they set aside the treatment of the dead in Western Europe so that they could ignore the raging debate on the soul and afterlife. This paper examines the situations in which the occidental dead "come back". This renewed recognition is fully effective only when Christian afterlife is taken under consideration, as with, for instance, the difficult birth of Purgatory. Historical and contemporary anthropology can then reflect upon the rich modalities of an exchange which, in recently studied rural societies of Southern Europe restores all its ordered complexity to the social use of the dead.
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