Motif
continuing social bonds with the dead
continuing_social_bonds_with_the_dead
A motif of the Ancestor Rites and Feeding the Dead family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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andamanese
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The Andaman Islanders: A Study in Social Anthropology CHAPTER IV / MYTHS AND LEGENDS / CHAPTER V / THE INTERPRETATION OF ANDAMANESE CUSTOMS AND BELIEFS: CEREMONIAL; lines 10684-10708 confidence: medium
The passage says ties of solidarity between the dead and the living continue after death, and interprets mourning customs as a way for survivors' social sentiments to be reorganized.
The dead person is said to remain bound by ties of solidarity to the living until society recovers from the effects of the death.
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