The Imagined Death
Looking to the Past for Relief from the Present
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13628370 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jerry Floersch (University of Chicago, corresponding author), Jeffrey Longhofer (University of Missouri–Kansas City) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 243-260 |
| Publication date | 1997-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2190/5hdb-9mwy-wkdj-l9px |
| OpenAlex | W1965641702 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 35 |
In the recent social theory and historiography, scholars have challenged us to scrutinize the ways that we use history in forming our concepts and constructing explanation. This article explores the hazards entailed in writing an oppositional history of death and dying, where we search for relief from the chaotic present by looking to an orderly past. It is argued that in sociology, bioethics, and history, the past is presented in terms of the present, through both the imposition of our current ideological preoccupations and our culturally biased categories. The result is a depiction of history that separates us from them, an idealized communal past from modern forms of social life; the community in contrast to the isolated and anonymous individual. This article encourages scholars to revisit the historical and ethnographic record with the aim of discovering the actual historical events, ruptures, and continuities that form, dissolve, and reform death events
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Placing the dead
Grief and mourning in cross-cultural perspective
Knowledge, Power, and Practice
Death Without Weeping
The Wedding of the Dead
For a Sociology of the Body
The sacred canopy
Europe and the people without history
The social construction of reality
Modernity and self-identity
Ritual, politics, and power
Death, grief, and mourning
Celebrations of Death
Economies of Signs and Space
Death and the Ancestors
Death and the Regeneration of Life
That Noble Science of Politics
The Invention Of Tradition
Civil Society and Political Theory
The Body and Social Theory
Symbolic Exchange and Death
Bringing Bodies Back in
Why the Welcome Needs to be Cautious
That Noble Science of Politics
Imagined communities
Death in Murelaga
Have Historical Sociologists Forsaken Theory
Biology and Social Science
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,19 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2022 (18) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |