The Narration of Death: How Traditions Narrate Death and its Effect on Community Throughout the semester, we as a class have examined numerous different religions and the traditions they follow pertaining to death and the afterlife. In many cases, death is seen as an extremely simple process: the dead gets buried and then you send sympathy to those close to the deceased. However, this is very much not the case. Each of these traditions works on two levels: they are built around honoring the…
MISSISSIPPIAN BURIAL PRACTICES: Mississippian Burial Practices and How Various Society’s Burial Practices Differ and Relate At the first description of the Mississippian cultures, specifically the Cahokian, my interest with these people grew. In both lectures from this course and my world civilizations course, descriptions of these people varied in terms of focus, but nevertheless caught my attention. And while my experience with North American cultures has been limited up until now, I am…
Stonehenge, located in Southern England, on the Salisbury plains is known by many. Stonehenge is a mysterious site that inspires various theories.The mystery of Stonehenge has made an impact on science and astronomy To begin with, people believe that the stones were crafted differently in various parts of the stone circle. In the text “Understanding Stonehenge” by Rossella Lorenzi visiters say they stay overnight to mark the summer solstice and to see the sunrise above the stones. Also…
JESSIE EMMA COOK was born in Heart’s Content at the end of 1880 or the beginning of 1881 and was baptised at St Mary’s Church on the 14th of January 1881. At some point during the early 1900s, Jessie married a man by the name of John Carmichael Dunning. Born in Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire in Scotland in 1882 to parents William and Janet (née Carmichael) Dunning, John was a telegraphist like Jessie’s father. Few reasons would have given Jessie reason to leave Heart’s Content, much less…
The Sarcophagus of Hagia Triada depicts Minoan funerary rites to honour the dead. Sacrifices and gift giving as part of the procession are shown on each of the sides. On one side, the people are presenting the gifts to the dead man himself, standing outside his tomb. The piece has a strong emphasis on line, shape, and colour. Many patterns adorn around the main register. The entire piece is filled with colour, though now most of it has faded. Strong lines separate each part of the patterns and…
Ghazal people were known for burying some of their dead close to their homes, some beneath the floors of their houses, others outside in the surrounding terrain. This was actually because these family members were denied a burial ceremony. We already know that ceremonial burials played a key part in many earlier civilizations; the reason as to why this small group of people were denied still remains a mystery. Something that seemed interesting was that roughly half the figurines are of wild…
Caitlin is a very interesting writer and she wrote about a very interesting subject. Starting the book, I had no expectations for what it was going to be like and the first chapter took me by surprise. Day one at her new job, she had to give an old man a clean shave. Normally, people learn the ropes of the whole business for the first few days but she was thrown in right away to shave a man’s face. Luckily, she said she did a great job from the evidence that the family did not notice if she had…
pick from. Picking the Deceased The body needs to be collected from the funeral home. Most people like to go in person to do this, but if it is not something you are comfortable to do, just let the directors pick it up and bring it to the site of burial. They deal with the paperwork needed to obtain the body from the…
The funeral figures of the Cameroon Grasslands, the Fang and the Kota are similar in usage, but take different forms. This is because of the placement of the communities. It is also because of the constant moving of the Fang and Kota communities, due to enemies pushing them out of the area. During the Cry-Die ceremony, which is Creole for funeral, people of the Cameroon Grasslands mourn the passing of a loved one. Elaborately beaded, cotton, crocheted hats worn by chiefs are worn. Other people…
respecting culture through repatriation and reburial are important even in the work that is taken for granted. Tombs, and pharaohs of Egypt are things of common display in museums, frequently photographed, and yet the sole purpose of existence is burial, for the preservation of remains in a respectful way. While the mummified remains of Pharaohs are not buried physically, the removal of their remains from the final resting place is the same. Archaeology has the responsibility to handle remains…