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Karma After Democratic Kampuchea: Justice Outside The Khmer Rouge Tribunal, Caroline Bennett
Karma After Democratic Kampuchea: Justice Outside The Khmer Rouge Tribunal, Caroline Bennett
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal
This article considers ways people in Cambodia narrate the Khmer Rouge regime and its genocide outside the bounds of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). Based on anthropological fieldwork, I explore how informants use ‘karma’ to discuss the genocide, and by doing so create their own understandings and lived experiences of that period of historical violence, understandings that do not fit neatly into the narrative modes created by the courts. By stepping outside the court, I consider ways of dealing with the genocide that exist beyond the international framework of transitional justice, thereby asking wider questions of …
A Culture Of Memorialization: Examining Public Grief Through Funeral Programs, Bethany R. Rykhus
A Culture Of Memorialization: Examining Public Grief Through Funeral Programs, Bethany R. Rykhus
Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato
Grief can be expressed in a vast number of ways, each unique to the person experiencing it. But are there wider trends in the manner in which this grief is displayed publicly? This research examines a collection of Christian funeral programs in Blue Earth County spanning the 1960s to the 2010s. By examining the linguistic and symbolic features of these programs, commonalities in the imagery, bible verses, poetry, or other tributes to the deceased are identified and analyzed across several factors including specific genders, ages, and time periods. This examination reflects a larger culture of memorialization amongst local Christian mourners …
Editor's Introduction, Marc R. Loustau
Editor's Introduction, Marc R. Loustau
Journal of Global Catholicism
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Posthumanism: Anthropological Insights By Alan Smart And Josephine Smart, David Shaw
Posthumanism: Anthropological Insights By Alan Smart And Josephine Smart, David Shaw
The Goose
Review of Alan Smart and Josephine Smart’s Posthumanism: Anthropological Insights.