The Stigmatized Deaths in Jonestown
Finding a Locus for Grief
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12096830 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rebecca Moore (0000-0003-2477-9816, San Diego State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 42-58 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Death Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0748-1187 • E-ISSN: 1091-7683 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07481181003772465 |
| PMID | 24501849 |
| OpenAlex | W2022051966 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 23 |
This article considers the stigmatized deaths in Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978, in which more than 900 Americans died of mass murder and suicide, and how this led to the disenfranchisement of grief. It examines the rituals of exclusion by which bodies were handled and describes the experiences of Jonestown survivors. It then looks at the ways in which grief has been enfranchised through a memorial website that posts names, photographs, and eulogies of those who died. This website serves as the primary place for relatives to visit, since the names themselves have become signs of absent bodies
Criminology · Grief · Psychiatry · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology
Bodies and Names
Bodies and Names
Drinking the Kool-Aid
Black Sheep and Kissing Cousins
Understanding Jonestown and Peoples Temple
Hearing the Voices of Jonestown
Imagining Religion
Perpetual Care in Cyberspace
Memorializing Loved Ones on the World Wide Web
Drinking the Kool‐Aid
Disenfranchised grief and evaluations of social support by college students
Latent functions of enfranchising the disenfranchised griever
Evaluation of people bereaved by suicide
Gone from the Promised Land
Public reactions to child suicide
Anniversary Reactions, Trauma, and Mourning
Rituals of Exclusion and the Jonestown Dead
Naming Names
Hearing the Voices of Jonestown
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |