Special Burial Practices And Funerals
Scope Note
Abbreviated and extended funerals; distinctive mortuary rites in special cases of death (e.g., for an enemy, stranger, executed criminal, pauper, slave, child, women dying in childbirth, chief, shaman, warrior, person dying abroad, victim of accidental death, suicide, homicide, victim of epidemic or loathsome disease); ceremonies at the death of animals; etc.
History Note
The term was changed from "Deviant Mortuary Practices" to "Special Burial Practices and Funerals" in 2000.
- Broader Term
- 760 Death
- Related Terms
- 727 Aftermath Of Combat
- 753 Theory Of Disease
- 782 Prayers And Sacrifices
- 843 Pregnancy
- 845 Difficult And Unusual Births
- 847 Abortion And Infanticide
- Use Fors
- Animals (funerals)
- Burial practices for special funerals
- Ceremonies (at the death of animals)
- Corpse disposal (special funeral)
- Cremation (special funerals)
- Dead (disposal in special circumstances)
- Disposal of corpse in a special funeral
- Funerals (special)
- Inhumation in special funerals
- Purificatory rites (special mortuary)
- Rites (special mortuary)
- Identifier
- 766
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