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...Ako Nakano Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Death and History: An Emperor's Funeral Ako Nakano The Imperial flag hoisted high in battles for the creation of a Japanese empire in Asia shows a rising sun emanating its...

...Marc Manganaro Copyright © 1996 by The University of Chicago 1996 A Funeral in North Lebanon: On Narratives of Other-Cultural Encounters Marc Manganaro 1magine...

... the categories of the living and the dying organized in terms of temporal proximity. In order to make that argument, I consider some of the contexts in which the investment in death is lit- eralized, and, in particular, I consider the operations and discourses of the funer- ary and life insurance...

... together for quiet commiseration, while the media toll with eulogies and denunciations of the crime. The funeral is usually held in the deceased’s ancestral village and unfolds according to the rites of his or her religious community...

... and gossip give rise to the prospect of a politics divorced from identity. The salience of gossip to the work of mourning can be seen in the remarkably astute ethnography of funeral rituals and spirit mediums in a Bicol town (south- east of Manila) during the late 1980s by the anthropologist...

... at the funeral of Sarah Bartmann (August 9, 2002), Thabo Mbeki, the president of South Africa, analyzed sexually charged represen- tations of African bodies as central epistemological features of nineteenth- and twentieth-century European racism. Given President Mbeki’s increasing reluc...

... accompany patients who have no family support: they sign a discharge form authorizing the organi- zation of a pauper’s funeral. These funerals are provided by the Department of Social Services. A dismal cycle then begins in which the patients impotently wit- ness the regular departures...

... funeral. And the question that I asked was, if the working class saved for anything in the nineteenth century, why did they save for a proper funeral? There was a moment when the pauper funeral became unbearable and a mark of an abiding social pathology. The radical journalist William Cobbett’s book...

... of God. Mitterand alive after his death would be God‘s competitor. On the other hand, I have been to a funeral 1. The quotations from the rebroadcasts of Francois Mitterand at the Bastille are from the Le Monde article of 12 January 1996, “Un vieil homme est mort, il 6tait ma jeunesse...

... happiness. You many. You become parents. You go to parties. You go to funerals. In a tightly packed train you play rummy. Hanging out on the footboards, you hold forth on the principles of government. You fall in love. Sometimes you even fall really in love, true...

... into a taxi to “town” in the evening, they were labeled. This is no longer the case. Young people are less political and more excited about life and about the world in general. People are keen to make it for themselves. At the same time, the number of funerals has increased. “Com- munity” is still built...

.... DOXA AT LARGE Hijacked by Realism Beatriz Jaguaribe In an ordinary afternoon, numerous mourners attend the funeral of a well-known upper-middle-class man. The funeral takes place in the cemetery São João Baptista, located...

... were deeply intertwined with your own, or a trusted friend who had sat next to you at a funeral. A lover or two. The informer’s weekly reports said that I was the “leader of the youth division of the American Youth for Democracy...

...-Mobley, Emmett Till’s mother, who infamously chose to hold an open-casket funeral for her son — and who was excoriated not just by white supremacists, but by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the black press, for the perception that she was seeking compensation...

..., Homens e Herbis: dinhnica e perman8ncia atravii do lotidi- an0 da vida Bororo, FFLCH, USP Cole$% Anthropologie, 8, Silo Paulo, 1987. ‘Tranps, cabaps e couros no funeral 330mm: a prmito de urn processo de constitu- iciio de identidade,” in Marfins (Org.) A Morte e 0s Mortos M Sociedade...

... want more than ceremonies and celebrations to show off their splendour. Those who have accumulated goods, prestige and influence are not only tied to the constraint of giving.85 They are also taken by the desire to “die well,” and to be buried with pomp.86 Funerals constitute one...

... funeral fuses with the marriage procession of fourth brother Wen-ching. In a Taoist round, life and death alternate in natural transformation. The character of Wen-ching is a key figure in Hou’s diffusion of tension. Deaf...

..., for the administration is in the hands of the many and not of the few. — Pericles's Funeral Oration, in Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War Everyone's equal. Same chances of getting hit. Equal in the eyes of the rocket. — Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow When Public Culture was founded...

... uses.8 Colonialism and Prodigal Living In precolonial Vietnam, time was consumed in the form of feasts, festivals, wed- dings, and funerals, what the historian Neil Jamieson referred to as “occasions for conspicuous...

... . Buddhism and Bioethics . Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave Macmillan . Klima Alan . 2002 . The Funeral Casino: Mediation, Massacre, and Exchange with the Dead in Thailand . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Lewitz Saveros (Pou) . 1974 . “ Recherches sur le vocabulaire...