Histórias de fins, histórias sem fins...: um estudo sobre rituais no processo de luto

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2010

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The purpose of this thesis was to understand the role of rituals in grieving situations caused by disasters. Given the Attachment Theory and the subsequent contributions to this approach, increased by studies on the meaning of death and of rituals performed in the grieving process, we conducted a qualitative study of people who suffered losses in a crash: the aircraft crashed after takeoff hitting some houses, resulting in the death of all passengers and crew and one resident of the affected community. With this objective in mind we have researched as it was the grieving process, if they received some type of social support and how the mourning relatives are now days. Data was grouped into two blocks denominated risk factors and protective factors , being the first sought to verify the reactions inherent in traumatic grief, the actions of brutalization of the dead and the living and the precariousness or lack of rites of passage. In the second section, we focus on mourners reports on shares of kindness addressed to the dead, to themselves and whether or not rites of passage were performed. Remember that this study addresses a kind of mourning, which, though private, is also a part of public mourning, for it is aimed on losses caused by mass transport, and also for having achieved widespread media coverage. In this sense, we tried to observe how the grief was expressed in public space due to its revival as the New Public Mourning and in private space, considering also what were the cultural influences within this perspective. Assuming that culture shapes us, we contextualize the data from the anthropological view of super modernity, characterized by figures of excess: time, the non-places and I. We made two important considerations: the first involves the principle of non-brutalization of the dead, which means respect in the treatment to the dead; the second, covers the principle of non-brutalization of the living, with regard to their welfare by defining for the latter, the word delicacy. In closing remarks, we emphasize that in cases of bereavement due losses from disaster situations, rituals can act as a protective factor for better preparation of the process of traumatic grief, and considering that in this type of death bereavement must occur in both the public and in private, we found that if manifested only in one of these two dimensions do not get to fill, nor confirm or acknowledge, both for the bereaved and to the community, the unique existence of what was lost. In this sense, is not optional, but necessary, its manifestation in both dimensions

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rituais psicologia rituals new public mourning luto -- aspectos psicologicos disasters novo luto público catástrofes

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