Making Sense of Family Deaths in Urban Senegal: Diversities, Contexts, and Comparisons
| Autor: | Joséphine Wouango, Sophie Bowlby, Ruth Evans, Jane Ribbens McCarthy |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
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Male Health (social science) Attitude to Death Adolescent Urban Population 0211 other engineering and technologies 050109 social psychology 02 engineering and technology Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine Young Adult Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Family Sociology Life-span and Life-course Studies Qualitative Research Aged Materiality (auditing) 021103 operations research 05 social sciences Islam Middle Aged Senegal Religion Aesthetics Female Bereavement |
| ISSN: | 0030-2228 |
| Popis: | Despite calls for cross-cultural research, Minority world perspectives still dominate death and bereavement studies, emphasizing individualized emotions and neglecting contextual diversities. In research concerned with contemporary African societies, on the other hand, death and loss are generally subsumed within concerns about AIDS or poverty, with little attention paid to the emotional and personal significance of a death. Here, we draw on interactionist sociology to present major themes from a qualitative study of family deaths in urban Senegal, theoretically framed through the duality of meanings-in-context. Such themes included family and community as support and motivation; religious beliefs and practices as frameworks for solace and (regulatory) meaning; and material circumstances as these are intrinsically bound up with emotions. Although we identify the experience of (embodied, emotional) pain as a common response across Minority and Majority worlds, we also explore significant divergencies, varying according to localized contexts and broader power dynamics. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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