Until "I lease her a space under my skin", or bustle about death Cover Image

Dokąd "dzierżawię jej miejsce pod skórą", czyli wokół śmierci się krzątanie
Until "I lease her a space under my skin", or bustle about death

Author(s): Kamila Luft, Monika Sadowska
Subject(s): Anthropology
Published by: Instytut Nauk o Kulturze i Studiów Interdyscyplinarnych - Wydział Filologiczny - Uniwersytet Śląski
Keywords: Death; life; the anthropology of death; literature; experience

Summary/Abstract: Bustle about in anthropology of death perspective concern on funeral practices functioning in our societies that are aimed on hiding external signs of decomposition, which is associated with the transi figure. Bustle about concern also on sorting and organizing any material evidence remain after living human, who left. Bustle about is a category that describes the contemporary attitude to life, which is nothing more than a slow process of dying. This way of looking at death robs of the sacred, by what it comes to everyday experience, from which people trying to remove it, due to focus on small, seemingly unimportant, performed mindlessly everyday activities. Precisely this activities occupying our thoughts don't allow to confrontation with the inevitable and reduce the ability of anticipate our fate.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 20-21
  • Page Range: 76-82
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Polish