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Constanze Güthenke’s Feeling and Classical Philology (Cambridge, 2020) prompts wider reflections on the balance between empathy and distance, and between personality and context in classical scholarship. This paper explores some implications of that line
Lorraine Daston
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This research critically examines Indonesian criminal law in addressing necrophilia's various manifestations, emphasizing the protection of deceased dignity and human rights.
Fuadi Isnawan
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Review of "Necroculture" by Charles Thorpe (Palgrave Macmillan)
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Seth Cosimini
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This paper focuses on Wilde’s use of French in his dramatization of the Biblical story, Salomé. It argues that Wilde adopted the foreign language as a strategy for representing the taboo of incestuous and homoerotic desire, murder and necrophilia.
Emily Eells
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Abstract What is the nature of affective partisan polarization? We answer this question in a preregistered laboratory study conducted in the United States measuring partisans' affective reactions to static images of US politicians with self‐reports and physiological indicators of valence and arousal.
Kevin Arceneaux, Bert N. Bakker
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Abstract Marvel's 2022 blockbuster film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was marked by the death of lead actor Chadwick Boseman in 2020, resulting in the cinematic death of his character T'Challa. For US Black audiences, the imagined nation of Wakanda served as more than entertainment, but a diasporic “home” at a time of deepening anti‐Blackness and ...
Marissa Smith Morgan
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What do we owe the newly dead? An ethical analysis of findings from Japan's corpse hotels workers
Abstract While people are still alive, we owe them respect. Yet what, if anything, do we owe the newly dead? This question is an urgent practical concern for aged societies, because older people die at higher rates than any other age group. One novel way in which Japan, the frontrunner of aged societies, meets its need to accommodate high numbers of ...
Nancy S. Jecker, Eriko Miwa
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Le nécrophile, pervers insaisissable (France, XIXe siècle)
During the summer of 1849, the Paris Council of War sentences François Bertrand, "the Vampire of Montparnasse", to one year in prison for violating graves.
Amandine Malivin
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This article proposes that stigmas connected to social categories of exclusion prevalent during life extend into dealings with the dead, here referred to as ‘necro‐ostracism’, in the context of death and burial of Muslim nomadic populations in urban Afghanistan. Based on qualitative fieldwork carried out in Kabul, Herat, and Mazar‐e Sharif, it explores
Annika Schmeding
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