Cemeteries and tombs in the Muslim worlds at the crossroads of religious, political and memorial issues: an introduction
While men’s attitudes toward death have profoundly evolved in all human societies (Aries, 1977, Godelier, 2015), burial practices, wherever present, appear as a social fact. Indeed, burial practices set the whole of society and its institutions in motion. It mobilizes a society’s cultural dimensions...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Ed. Edisud
2019
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Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée
Year: 2019, Issue: 146 |
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Summary: | While men’s attitudes toward death have profoundly evolved in all human societies (Aries, 1977, Godelier, 2015), burial practices, wherever present, appear as a social fact. Indeed, burial practices set the whole of society and its institutions in motion. It mobilizes a society’s cultural dimensions (economic, technological, political, artistic, religious), it gathers individuals into social groups and defines and reflects the changing forms of their daily lives, their collective memories and... |
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ISSN: | 2105-2271 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.4000/remmm.13414 |