The Meaning of Death in Northern Cheyenne Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9218324 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne S Straus (Social Sciences Collegiate Division University of Chicago Chicago, IL 60637, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 79 |
| Pages | 1-12 |
| Publication date | 1978-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Plains Anthropologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-0447 • E-ISSN: 2052-546X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/2052546.1978.11908875 |
| PMID | 11630617 |
| OpenAlex | W113366944 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
Death is a process in Northern Cheyenne culture, not an event, and the process of death reverses the process of development of the human person. Death marks the end of the association between spiritual self and physical body for human beings, but not the anihilation of the self. The Northern Cheyenne lives in a “great society” in which humans are not the only kind of participant, and deceased tribal members generally retain both tribal membership and personhood. Death, here, is transformation even transmigration and only those who have sinned or who die in a bad way will forfeit their place in the tribal community. Yet even a good death brings intense loneliness to those who remain, and fear of that loneliness is the greatest fear associated with death in the Northern Cheyenne community
Archaeology · Cheyenne · Ethnology · Genealogy · Loneliness · Meaning (existential) · Personhood · Political science · Sociology · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1987 - 2022 (36) |
| Highly cited | No |