Fabrics and Funerals: An Ethnographic Enquiry

A society’s funerary textile practices accurately reflect its beliefs and symbolic framework surrounding death and the afterlife.

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Uses of textiles and animal skins in funerary rituals	Dependent	Leather, Textiles, And Fabrics, Special Garments, Burial Practices And Funerals
Society’s eschatological beliefs	Independent	Life And Death, Suicide, Dying, Eschatology
Symbolic framework surrounding death and the afterlife	Independent	Visual Arts

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Somersan, Semra	1984	Matrilineal societies will be more likely to believe in a quality of afterlife unconditioned on individual’s behavior (160).	Partially supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Textor, Robert B.	1967	In societies that believe in an attractive afterlife, females will tend to have property rights (278, 432).	Marginally Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Bendixen, Theiss, Apicella, Coren, Atkinson, Quentin, Cohen, Emma, Henrich, Joseph, McNamara, Rita A., Norenzayan, Ara, Willard, Aiyana K., Xygalatas, Dimitris, Purzycki, Benjamin Grant	2024	Religious beliefs surrounding making appeals to deities tend to reflect the structure of local social ecologies, particularly regarding cooperation and coordination.	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Matlock, James Graham	1993	2) Reincarnation beliefs will be positively associated with belief in an afterlife socially organized to reflect the living model	Not Tested	0	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Matlock, James Graham	1993	4) Reincarnation beliefs and the belief in soul singularity will be positively associated with spirit fragmentation at death.	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author