A morte e seus trânsitos

Abstract

The present work refers to an anthropological critique of death that has as its starting point the social history of death in the West. It is a study with a bibliographic character, but with several ethnographic elements since the initial project foresaw fieldwork that could not be completed due to different personal issues, interestingly, related to death. The narrative brings death as a socioculturally constructed category, based on analyzes of some rituals of mourning and burial, as well as the reframing of the idea of the body as the sole and exclusive support of the one who lives. The aim is to promote, in the discourse undertaken, an emptying of the Western idea of the body, analyzing the performance of this structure when it biologically dies and when it culturally resurrects. Reflexives dialogues about the various types of death are promoted in an attempt that the approach to the phenomenon and its multiple manifestations allows seeing up close how finitude moves us, impacts and imprints life from its multi-agencies.