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Authors: TÓDOR CSABA.
DOI: 10.24193/subbtref.66.2.06
Published Online: 2021-12-20
Published Print: 2021-12-30
pp. 119-140
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Abstract: The Ethics of Transition – The Prefabricated Tombstone as Identity Portrait. The present paper is part of a broader study. The broader context of the research compares and analyses the English and Transylvanian funeral rituals. My current paper examines a slice of this broader research context, identifying the problem of the funeral ritual, which has traditionally served as a transitional and linear ceremony. As such, the funeral started to transform from being a transitional ritual into a mosaic, personalized rite, by losing its transitional character. In the context of examining the social causes, the study examines how linear transitional elements are eliminated in funerals and, ultimately, how so-called existential holes appear in the funeral rituals.
Keywords: self-image, post-socialist identity, tombstone, funeral
