Dying Badly

Violent Death and Religious Change among the Tohono O'Odham

Datos Bibliográficos

ID13629037
AutoresDavid Kozak (0000-0002-2622-370X, Arizona State University, autor de correspondencia), David Lee Kozak (Arizona State University, Tempe)
Año1991
Volumen23
Número3
Páginas207-216
Fecha de publicación1991-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2190/me2g-55vv-w877-jwwv
OpenAlexW1979505142
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas8

The present work elaborates on the distinction between “good” and “bad” death as conceptualized by the Tohono O'odham (Papago) of southern Arizona. 1 Violent mortality rates are correlated and analyzed along side ethnographic description. The recent history (c. 1950 to the present) of death and dying among the O'odham of the Sells Reservation reveals a troubling trend of violent mortality among young adult males. This trend has led to a new religious ideology of death and ritual practice based upon the concept of “good” as opposed to “bad” death. This new ideology and ritual practice is objectified in the construction of roadside death-memorials

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