Displaying the Dead

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Chapter 14 - Displaying the Dead

Funeral Processions, Tombs, Performance, and Place in Ancient Rome and China

from Part IV - Fringe Places and Endpoints

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 November 2024

Armin Selbitschka

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Hans Beck and

Griet Vankeerberghen

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Hans Beck: Affiliation:
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany
Griet Vankeerberghen: Affiliation:
McGill University, Montréal

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Death constitutes a deep life crisis to the living – depending on the departed, to families, communities, and societies. In this chapter, the author discusses the eminent strategies of overcoming this crisis, that is, funeral and burial practices, and the ritual sequences that connect the two. Both the Roman and the Chinese cases have received much scholarly attention. Armin Selbitschka’s chapter distinguishes itself through its comparative perspective and the theoretical charge with which it is enriched from performance theory and sociologies of place. In the study of each culture, careful consideration is given to the historical development across time. Embarking from conceptual debates on the disruption of the social order and the innate capacity of social performances to restore it, he discusses various practices revolving around the dead, including the preparation of the departed, funerary cortèges, and orations. The subsequent section extends the analysis to the inherent meaning of tombs – their place in the urban landscape, their commemorative force, and their embodiment of social hierarchies. In so doing, it reveals a curious spatial dynamics between the funeral’s beginning in the private sphere and its transition into the public arena. Due to the different configuration of public in Rome and in China, Selbitschka in conclusion makes visible the culture-specific traits in the performances that accompanied mourners on their way to the tomb and beyond, into a future where the social crisis of death was resolved, for the time being.

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funeral processions orations burial practices tombs performative theory social order

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Information: Place and Performance in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China , pp. 437 - 468
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