| Titre | Réenchanter la mort | |
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| Auteur | Alexa Hagerty | |
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Revue | Terrain |
| Numéro | no 62, mars 2014 Les morts utiles | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Les morts utiles |
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| Page | 120-137 | |
| Résumé anglais |
“Home funerals” are a small, grassroots North American movement in which the dead body is cared for at home by friends and family rather than in a funeral home by professionals. This paper argues that home funeral practice offers a generative view of the tension between the body as biological and social construction, matter and meaning, object and subject. In home funerals, the dead body is enacted as possessing a fading spark of agency and subjectivity, animating the dead against the grain of medical and scientific conceptions of the corpse as inert object. Home funerals provocatively engage questions of the forms of care and affective attachment available between the living and the dead. Source : Éditeur (via OpenEdition Journals) |
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| Article en ligne | http://terrain.revues.org/15382 |
