[I]t is the English version of Western death that seems to be spreading more widely[…], both in the thanatopraxis of cremation which is spreading even in Portugal with the blessing of the Catholic Church and in the cultural ideals of dying […] In the 'symbolic' perspective one studies death through the prism of cosmology and community, collective and individual representations, mortuary rites, the cultural regulation of the emotions, thanatopraxis, mourning customs, the iconology of death.
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Le travail de deuil, est-ce un travail, une espèce de travail? Et la thanatopraxie, technique de la pompe funèbre aujourd’hui enseignée dans des instituts, donnant lieu à des diplômes de qualification, la limiterat-on à une corporation parmi d’autres, à l’intérieur d’une économie sociale?
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In some respects the thanatopraxis of the Cantonese as described by James Watson is more discrepant, though I will indicate later in this chapter key underlying uniformities. […] Another standard feature of Chinese thanatopraxis is that, whereas spirit-money, paper houses, paper representations of clothes, a set of real new clothes, and other items are all transmitted to the deceased in the otherworld by burning, food is never burned for the dead. […] An individual’s biological death is merely a chapter-ending in that individual’s more extensive biography. This notion, of course, is widespread and by no means specific to the Chinese syndrome of beliefs and thanatopraxis.
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The following essays attempt to establish subtle connections between many unusual themes, commonplaces and well-known political phenomena: namely, […] cartomancy, thanatopraxis, ethnopsychiatry, […] Thanatopraxis consists of a technique whereby a corpse undergoes somatic treatment and is then stored, a practice that substitutes the ancient religious one of simply burying mortal remains in a cemetery as soon as possible. […] Sophisticated thanatopraxis can work marvels with corpses deformed by accidents, skin diseases, cancer and other mutilations. There are specialized treatments for overweight or pregnant corpses. […] D. Rochette, quoted by Louis-Vincent Thomas, Mort et pouvoir, Paris: Payot, 1978, p. 129. My description of thanatopraxis comes from this book.
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