Death in the family
Ritual therapy in a Creole community
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2870642 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rosemary Brana-Shute (1. [email protected]), Rosemary Brana‐shute (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies), Gary Brana-Shute, Gary Brana‐shute (University of Florida) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 135 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 59-83 |
| Publication date | 1979-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0006-2294 • E-ISSN: 2213-4379 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/22134379-90002570 |
| OpenAlex | W2005465823 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
Social Crisis and Ritual RestorationAl1 individuals undergo changes in their position in the comrnunity and in their interactions with others as a result of predictable and regular social and physical events in the life cycle, such as birth, pubecty, marriage, death.These events in an individual's life are often the occasion for rituals, precisely because such momentous changes in any one individual's life affect not only the status of the individual but also his relationship wis& parents, siblings, peers, enemies, and in some cases, the ancestors who regularly figure in his life.Van Gennep, writing early in chis century, referred to these status changes as "life crises" and termed their accompanying rituals "rites of passage".Noting that various rites cd passage among widely dispersed societies formed an extraordinarily similar pattern, van Gennep con
Affect (linguistics · Creole language · Ethnology · Linguistics · Social life · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Communication · History · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1979 - 2019 (41) |
| Highly cited | No |