Death Anthropology

Death Anthropology

Introduction

The anthropology of feminist death and anthropology were the two main theoretical positions used throughout the practice.It is the universal and unrecusable event par excellence. Anthropology begins the anthropological study of death since the beginning of the discipline itself, especially in the first great studies of the so -called primitive societies in the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, with a clear influence of evolutionary theory in its analysis.

The anthropology of death is articulated on two axes: the body necessarily condemned to decomposition, or at least progressive dissolution if conservation techniques avoid the horrors of corruption;and the set of mental constructions individual and collective fantasies, systems of representations, various defense mechanisms that respond to deep aspirations in which it consists precisely the imaginary, and this is customary to resort to the symbol, its privileged instrumental mediator.

It is on this second axis of mental constructions of which this report starts, since death is established not only in the ritual that accompanies it, but also in the symbolic thinking that is recreated, either to incorporate the deceased into the ancestors within the ancestors, or that is intended for oblivion.

Developing

The cemeteries have been included in the studies of the anthropology of death throughout the development of the discipline, since they are an important source of information on the communities that have founded it and that visit it;In them you can investigate cultural, social, artistic, economic, religious and political aspects of a community, in addition to being a space for reflection to understand life and death, a reference of identity and memory, where values of their owneach time and their space through rituals and funeral practices.

Unlike death, the study of women in anthropology is recent, it arises as a result of the long period of the struggle of the feminist movement and the spaces won in the political and academic sphere in the 60s.

Feminist anthropology arises in 1970 denouncing the androcentric bias of the discipline, since the majority of anthropologists were men who were based on their studies and observations in people of the same sex by invisible by the culture of women, and the gender relationship in thesocieties;Its main contribution was to demonstrate through field work in several non -western cultures that most western arguments referring to gender did not coincide with reality, and that the traditional theories that showed male dominance as something necessary, were wrong.

The definition of gender or gender perspective from anthropology refers to the symbolic order with which a given culture elaborates sexual difference. The investigation of the anthropologist Manuel Delgado where he reconstructs the way in which the genre intervened in the perception of the social, political or everyday of historical actors, is a clear example of this.

conclusion

The differences between male and wife translate in terms of inequality between the sexes. This inequality can be translated into gender violence, gender violence states that it is a form of violence that has an impact on the development of people, in self-perception of themselves and the most forceful, recurring and invisible modalities of aggression, andIt is explained as a collective phenomenon, which is recorded in the context of a society that makes possible the existence of this phenomenon and tolerates, even justifies, the perpetrators, in addition it is not, in any way, an isolated act, apart from the contextSocial.

From the collection of the San Pedro Museum Cemetery, much of the history of Medellín cansocial and cultural order that governs life as death.