Fear Of Ghosts At Funerals

Associated Documents (1)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Whiting, John W.M.Sorcery, sin and the superego: a cross-cultural study of some mechanisms of social control

Associated Hypotheses (2)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Whiting, John W.M."Those societies which are relatively neglectful of infants should be more afraid of ghosts at funerals than those societies in which children are treated indulgently during their infancy" (156)
Whiting, John W.M."Societies where parents, relatively speaking, neglect their children during infancy and punish them severely for aggression during childhood, should be the socieites that fear the ghosts of the dead at funerals" (157)

Associated OCMs

  1. cult of the dead