Social bonds with the dead: how funerals transformed in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
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DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0274
Abstract: Evolutionary thanatology includes the study of necrophoresis—the removal of dead individuals by the living among social insects. In human societies, ‘necrophoresis' is performed via the funeral ceremony. In pre-modern societies, relatives and local community members… read more here.
Keywords: bonds dead; first centuries; twenty first; twentieth twenty ... See more keywords