Faculty Sponsor
Jackson Miller & Brenda DeVore Marshall
Location
Jereld R. Nicholson Library
Date
5-17-2013 3:00 PM
End Date
5-17-2013 4:30 PM
Subject Area
Communication Arts/Rhetoric
Description
Through intensive interviewing of funeral officiators and culturally sensitive scripting, this paper strives to use staged performance as a means of creating an embodied, multilayered understanding of funerals as ritual performances. Using qualitative interviews, this paper builds on existing literature pertaining to grief studies and the cultural institutions surrounding mortality. The script process draws from autoethnographic writing as well as interview data to construct a staged performance. Performative insights are added to more conventional data analysis in order to build a nuanced critique of the social role of funeral rites.
Recommended Citation
Davis, Janelle L., "Speaking for the Dead: Funeral as Ritual Performance" (2013). Humanities and Creative Projects. Event. Submission 9.
https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/studsymp_cr/2013/all/9
Speaking for the Dead: Funeral as Ritual Performance
Jereld R. Nicholson Library
Through intensive interviewing of funeral officiators and culturally sensitive scripting, this paper strives to use staged performance as a means of creating an embodied, multilayered understanding of funerals as ritual performances. Using qualitative interviews, this paper builds on existing literature pertaining to grief studies and the cultural institutions surrounding mortality. The script process draws from autoethnographic writing as well as interview data to construct a staged performance. Performative insights are added to more conventional data analysis in order to build a nuanced critique of the social role of funeral rites.
