Introduction to the Special Issue: Conversations with Six Thanatology Pioneers: Preview of an Oral History Project
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DOI: 10.1080/07481187.2019.1641999
Abstract: This special issue of Death Studies previews an oral history project with some leading figures in the field of thanatology. The project included persons from three generations of thanatologists. Th... read more here.
Keywords: project; thanatology; history project; oral history ... See more keywords
Behaviour of nonhuman primate mothers toward their dead infants: uncovering mechanisms
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DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0261
Abstract: In comparative thanatology, most reports for nonhuman mammals concern mothers' behavioural responses to their dead offspring: most prominently, dead-infant carrying (sometimes of extended duration); but also inspection, proximity, maternal care such as grooming, protective behaviours… read more here.
Keywords: thanatology; primate; nonhuman primate; primate mothers ... See more keywords
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