Journal article
Changing Breton Responses to Death
Abstract
Based on field work conducted in Brittany, France, during 1983 and 1984, this article discusses changes in Breton responses to death which have accompanied modernization and economic development in this region. It is suggested that familiarity with death and acceptance of it are being replaced by the “denial of death” characteristic of contemporary Western culture. This is indicated by such changes as the disappearance of the wake in urban …
Authors
Badone E
Journal
OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 77–83
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Publication Date
February 1988
DOI
10.2190/8tcj-ebww-4luk-y8w1
ISSN
0030-2228