Questions of dying in our society affected by COVID. A socio-anthropological approach
Le Grand-Sébille, Catherine
Questions of dying in our society affected by COVID. A socio-anthropological approach - 2020.
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This article is concerned with the ritualized treatment of death in our society, before and during covid-19 crisis, and looks at the historical transformations generated by the medicalization and privatization of death in the 20th century. The ritual renewal that has characterized the three last decades has been, as it were, evinced by an all-powerful sanitary processing which has organized, since March 2020, in technocratic fashion, a confiscation of the dying, the dead and funeral rites. This abrasion of the symbolic overlooks the fact that participating in a ritual activity around death provides each individual – and particularly children – with the possibility of experiencing the benefit of shared emotions and real solidarity, which metaphorize death and reaffirm social ties.
Questions of dying in our society affected by COVID. A socio-anthropological approach - 2020.
60
This article is concerned with the ritualized treatment of death in our society, before and during covid-19 crisis, and looks at the historical transformations generated by the medicalization and privatization of death in the 20th century. The ritual renewal that has characterized the three last decades has been, as it were, evinced by an all-powerful sanitary processing which has organized, since March 2020, in technocratic fashion, a confiscation of the dying, the dead and funeral rites. This abrasion of the symbolic overlooks the fact that participating in a ritual activity around death provides each individual – and particularly children – with the possibility of experiencing the benefit of shared emotions and real solidarity, which metaphorize death and reaffirm social ties.
Réseaux sociaux