Not Just Dead Meat: An Evolutionary Account of Corpse Treatment in Mortuary Rituals
Comparing mortuary rituals across 57 representative cultures extracted from the Human Relations Area Files, this paper demonstrates that kin of the deceased engage in behaviours to prepare the deceased for disposal that entail close and often prolonged contact with the contaminating corpse. At first...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2017
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Journal of cognition and culture
Year: 2017, Volume: 17, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 146-168 |
| Further subjects: | B
corpse
cultural evolution
grief
human relations area files
mortuary rituals
mourning
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Verlag) |