Aging and Death Rituals Presented in Documentary Films. An Anthropological Perspective
Aging and Death Rituals Presented in Documentary Films. An Anthropological Perspective

Summary/Abstract: The concept of memento mori is explained and developed by anthropologists and it aims to give the reader a closer look on how rituals are conducted in small societies combining everything with something that is based on experience. This paper aims on adressing the issue of aging, the connection between the passage of time and the gradual degradation of man, but it also focuses on other problems that arise with aging and the transition from life to death. It contains a theoretical synthesis that reveals the role played by the observational mode in documentaries about old aged people and the anthropological way of seeing the transition from life to death of a human being. A selected range of film analysis will give an overview over a Romanian and two foreign documentaries that contain an anthropological insertion in death rituals and aging.

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