> “How societies remember the dead can reveal what people value in life.”
This is the very first sentence in the abstract, but I find this claim highly dubious. Remembering the dead is a ritualized process built around etiquette and social conventions, not an accurate picture of what people “really” value.
p-e-w•1h ago
This is the very first sentence in the abstract, but I find this claim highly dubious. Remembering the dead is a ritualized process built around etiquette and social conventions, not an accurate picture of what people “really” value.