Death and disposal of the people's singer: The body and bodily practices in commemorative ritual

Stengs, I.L.

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“…The body donor monuments also provide an arena for public commemoration. Stengs (2009) shows that in public commemoration the significance of the deceased person exceeds their social environment. That means that through the body donor monuments people can confirm the political identity (e.g., benefactor) over the deceased's social identity (e.g., mother, partner, or friend).…”

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“…Recent decades have witnessed a large increase in funerary memorials built in the Netherlands, including memorials for disaster victims (Doss 2008; Post et al 2003), artists and politicians (Doss 2008; Stengs 2009), stillborn children (Peelen 2009), cancer patients (Tonnaer 2010), and traffic victims (Klaassens et al 2009). In 2007, the first monument for body donors was unveiled at the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), as seen in Figure 1.…”

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Dead Bodies Matter: Gift Giving and the Unveiling of Body Donor Monuments in the Netherlands

Bolt

2012

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Body donors are people who voluntarily donate their entire body, after death, to anatomical science. Based on anthropological fieldwork in the Netherlands this article explores the construction of body donor monuments since 2007. These developments are analyzed by means of gift-giving theories. Body donation is a practice in which the medical and scientific value of the donor bodies has always been praised. Increasingly the fact that the bodies represent real human beings who have mourning relatives has also been acknowledged. This change in attitude has resulted in a desire on the part of anatomical professionals to give back a monument, not only for the donors themselves but also, in particular, for the donors' relatives. The great public interest in the monuments has revealed that many of the bereaved, in the absence of having the physical body of the donor, need a symbolic final resting place for their loved ones.

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Dead Bodies Matter: Gift Giving and the Unveiling of Body Donor Monuments in the Netherlands

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2012

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“…His death and the disposal of his ashes were ritualized in a series of widely publicized events (Stengs 2009). After a television broadcast of the funeral, the public could follow the serial disposal of his ashes in the newspapers.…”

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In touch with the deceased: animate objects and human ashes

Heessels

Poots²,

Venbrux

2012

Material Religion

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in touch with the deceased: animate objects and human ashes meike heessels, a fleur poots, b and eric venbrux a a radboud university nijmegen, the netherlands, b university of amsterdam, the netherlands Downloaded by [Ecole Hautes Etudes Commer-Montreal] at 22ABSTRACT Despite increasing secularization in the Netherlands, beliefs in an afterlife have not disappeared. Instead, new death rituals have emerged, among which is the practice of enclosing human ashes in objects such as paintings, candleholders, jewelry, and tattoos. Because human matter can now be incorporated into paint, glass, metal, and human skin, the dead become part of daily life and the living become carriers of the deceased. As a consequence, the boundaries between persons and things, and the living and the dead blur. In fact, people's practices with ash objects suggest that these objects are regarded as animate. Though people are not religiously affiliated, their practices suggest beliefs in an afterlife, which we will explore in this article.

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“…Stengs (2009) discusses in detail the history behind the commemorative statue of Amsterdam levenslied singer Andre Hazés in the city's neighbourhood where the artist made allegedly his debut as a young boy. At the unveiling of the statue, funded by fans, Hazes' wife gave the first copy of her biography to the city's Mayor, symbolically offering the memory of the artist to Amsterdam.…”

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