The Dominion of the Dead

Harrison, Robert

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“…Funeral rituals also model appropriate behaviours for the bereaved and their community by providing guidelines and a venue for the public display of emotions (Northcott & Wilson, 2001, p. 96). Harrison (2003) observes: 'Ritualization thus serves to contain the crisis of grief in the very act of objectifying its content through scripted gestures and precise codes of enactment' (p. 57). Prior to the ceremony, the bereaved may gather in a small silenced room separate from the main ritual space.…”

Section: Dislocationmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…This is essential for as Harrison (2003) states: 'This desire -''to die with our dead'' -runs as deep in human nature as both love and the death drive, whose impulses it commingles and combines, making grief one of the most dangerous and potentially self-destructive psychic crises' (p. 55). Within some communities, such as those united by strong religious discourse and beliefs, ritual continues to proscribe the circumstances for bereavement, but for many others the absence of codified behaviours can lead to sensations of bewilderment, emptiness, and dislocation.…”

Section: Dwelling Places For the Deadmentioning

confidence: 98%

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Diaspora: Death without a landscape

Baptist

2010

Mortality

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The first wake for a friend who drove too fast and died too young, the heartache that accompanied the death of a beloved pet, the loss of grandparents exacerbated by witnessing a parent's anguish, all these little sorrows did nothing to prepare me for the ferocity of grief when it arrived swift and deadly. Two parents died in rapid succession, one expected, one unexpected, one suffered long lingering death, the other a swift, painful, and reluctant extermination. The tombstones match: each born in 1935, each dead in 2004. Their deaths changed the trajectory of my research and of my life. Bereavement, as I experienced it, was corporeally paradoxical. The gravitational pull of grief was a heavy burden I carried each day, weighing me down, dragging me ever earthward. And yet, I felt at the same time unfettered and groundless, for the landscape of home and of family seemed now lost to me forever. As I drove to the cottage that summer, roadside memorials en-route would snag my glance, drawing sorrow outwards towards these markers of tragic death. No bodies lay here along the roadside and yet grief and sorrow seemed physically present; I could sense its presence within my body and the landscape. In the itinerant state of my mourning, the roadside memorials became an impetus for research, and the landscape a dwelling place for diasporic grief. As an assistant professor in landscape architecture, the role the landscape may play in the mediation of grief became of interest to me. This paper explores this question: 'Do grief and death need a landscape to dwell in?'

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Section: Dislocationmentioning

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Section: Dwelling Places For the Deadmentioning

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Diaspora: Death without a landscape

Baptist

2010

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“…118 -119;Lock, 2002, p. 216). The corpse is the frail bearer of news to the realm of the dead: its location is out of sight, marked in this culture by the ''hic jacet'' (Harrison, 2003), invested in the earth but not out of mind until, Rights of the Corpse 229 through the natural process of damnatio memoriae, it dies a second time through erasure from memory.…”

Section: The Journey From Life To Deathmentioning

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The rights of the corpse

Baglow

2007

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The notion of the rights of the corpse can provoke incredulous reaction, seeming as it does to denigrate the concept of rights and to assign an ontological status to the corpse that defies reason. On the contrary, however, it can be demonstrated that the social corpse is constructed as a repository of meaning and value: that it remains human and, in a social sense, animate. Rights, deriving from obligations, are shown to inhere in the corpse as a result of the duties that we continue to acknowledge to it.

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“…En un momento, alguien toma el megáfono y empieza a hablar en el nombre de sus cenizas: es una persona seropositiva que sabe que tiene dos años de vida aproximadamente. Y entonces, decide "arrojar" sus cenizas anticipadamente, como gesto político que grafica, de modo radical, esa -retomo la expresión de Cristel Jusinotemporalidad "prepóstuma" en la que los tiempos del vivir y del morir se entrecruzan e interpelan: es 5 Pogue Harrison, Robert (2003). The Dominion of the Dead, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.…”

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Mundo hospital: enfermedad y formas de vida en las sociedades actuales / Hospital World: Disease and ways of life in today's societies

García¹

2017

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The Dominion of the Dead

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Diaspora: Death without a landscape

Diaspora: Death without a landscape

The rights of the corpse

Mundo hospital: enfermedad y formas de vida en las sociedades actuales / Hospital World: Disease and ways of life in today's societies

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