Grobni pridatki in dialektična posmrtna delovalnost v sodobnem Združenem kraljestvu: individualno in relacijsko, aktivno in pasivno, preteklost in sedanjost
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https://doi.org/10.3986/SMS20262903Ključne besede:
smrt, dejavnost, grobni pridatki, pogrebni obred, Združeno kraljestvo, nadaljevanje vezi, dividualnost, odsotnost–prisotnostPovzetek
Grobni pridatki – torej oblačila in predmeti, položeni k pokojniku med pokopom ali upepelitvijo, ki jih živi pozneje ne morejo zlahka pridobiti nazaj – lahko razkrijejo veliko o tem, kako razumemo mrtve in njihovo delovanje. Čeprav jih navadno povezujemo z antičnimi pogrebnimi obredi, so grobni pridatki pomembna značilnost tudi številnih sodobnih pogrebov v Združenem kraljestvu, čeprav se o njih redko govori. Na podlagi obsežne raziskave, ki še poteka, članek pokaže, da v sodobnem britanskem kontekstu, kjer približno 53 % pogrebov vključuje grobne pridatke, ti razkrivajo tri dialektične napetosti v posmrtni delovalnosti: individualnost–odnosnost; preteklost–sedanjost; ter aktivnost–pasivnost. Hkrati so prepleteni tudi z dejavnostjo živih, spomina ter materialnih in spominskih predmetov.
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