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- | # Megadeath | ||
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- | Ryan Schram | ||
- | ANTH 1002: Anthropology in the world | ||
- | Module 4, Week 3, Lecture 2 | ||
- | Social Sciences Building (A02), Room 410 | ||
- | ryan.schram@sydney.edu.au | ||
- | November 6, 2019 | ||
- | Available at http:// | ||
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- | ## People bring different experiences to the topic of death, and we want to acknowledge this | ||
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- | Today' | ||
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- | People can react as they need to (without interfering with other people). You can also always interrupt Ryan to slow lecture down, or to ask why he is presenting a particular piece of information. (When in doubt, just ask: "Ryan, what is the question that this topic will help us to answer?" | ||
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- | ## In a society that practices hospital death and death choice, people hypocognize the rights of the dead | ||
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- | The first main claim I want to make is prompted by two things about Sydney that I have always wanted to know more about: | ||
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- | * Why is there a train platform that looks like a church at the end of Regent Street (Brook 2015)? | ||
- | * Why is the big park in Newtown called Camperdown Memorial Rest Park (Sydney Morning Herald 1948)? | ||
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- | These are, I argue, symptoms of a particular culture of death in which individuals are forced to be free, and choose their own deaths. Specifically, | ||
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- | ## "Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us" | ||
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- | Not all dead people are erased, however, and the choice of whom to remember is very telling: | ||
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- | ## Death choice means that some people will have bad deaths | ||
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- | * The Queensland Pacific Islanders’ Fund, ca. 1880s (Moore 2015) | ||
- | * The morgue at Port Moresby General Hospital (Awikiak 2019) | ||
- | * A funeral for an asylum-seeker in Ireland (Thomas 2019) | ||
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- | ## Thinking like anthropologists | ||
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- | * Anthropologists are interested in every aspect of human experience, and see these as part of a totality. | ||
- | * Anthropologists place particular aspects of human experience---the things people think, feel, say, and do---in a larger context, as a part of a larger whole. | ||
- | * Anthropologists are diverse and eclectic. They don't necessarily agree on how to think about the larger picture into which their observations fit as parts. | ||
- | * The machine metaphor of society and structural-functionalism | ||
- | * The dramaturgical metaphor of society and scripts (or, rituals) | ||
- | * An emphasis on paradox, contradiction, | ||
- | * Anthropological knowledge is relevant, because anthropologists study everything, and anthropologists' | ||
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- | ## Quiz: A final in-class quiz | ||
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- | There will be a final in-class quiz in today' | ||
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- | ## References | ||
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- | Awikiak, Glenda. 2019. “Hospital Wants People to Collect Bodies of Relatives.” The Papua New Guinea National, January 7, 2019. https:// | ||
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- | Brook, Benedict. 2015. “The Station Where Only the Dead Depart.” News.com.au, | ||
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- | Ferguson, Kathy E., and Phyllis Turnbull. 1996. “Narratives of History, Nature, and Death at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 16 (2/3): 1–23. https:// | ||
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- | Moore, Clive. 2015. “The Pacific Islanders’ Fund and the Misappropriation of the Wages of Deceased Pacific Islanders by the Queensland Government.” Australian Journal of Politics & History 61 (1): 1–18. https:// | ||
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- | Sydney Morning Herald. 1948. “New Park Planned,” April 9, 1948. http:// | ||
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- | Thomas, Cónal. 2019. “Woman Who Died in Direct Provision Buried without Ceremony before Friends Were Told.” TheJournal.Ie, | ||
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- | Wolfson, Elizabeth. 2017. “The ‘Black Gash of Shame’—Revisiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Controversy.” Art21 Magazine, March 15, 2017. http:// | ||
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