WEEK 9 DAY 3: DEATH RITUALS AND THE OFRENDA PROJECT

• Attendance/ Bell Work
• Video & Notes
• Function of Death Rituals
• The Ofrenda Project
• Homework

W9D3 INQUIRY

Reflection: What is Death?
Take the time to think about the sociocultural mediators we use to understand death. This involves religious narratives, medical definitions, mourning traditions, symbolic gestures, literary references, etc. Provide your own explanation of the human relationship to death as a social phenomenon (the social functions, role, social cohesion, community, meaning-making, involved in death rituals).

LIFE THAT DOESN'T END WITH DEATH
Kelli Swazey

Look for the terms listed on the next slide...

TERMS: WATCH VIDEO, DEFINE IN NOTES

• Tongkonan
• To makala
• To mama
• Puya
• Tau tau

PASSING PERIOD
Get water, use the restroom, visit lockers, chat with the cool substitute teacher,
meditate, reread your notes, and be cool in general
FOR 5 MINUTES

WHAT IS THE FUNCTION OF DEATH RITUALS?

• Tana Toraja: highlands of Sulawesi island, Indonesia
• How does reciprocal debt play a role in the death ritual?
• How is death a "publicly shared transition"?
• How is it about the identity of the living?
• How is the "physical cessation of life not the same as death"?

HOMEWORK:
Observation Critique - draft due this Monday

HOMEWORK:
Death Ritual: Anthropological Perspectives
List of assigned sections is available in the class website. Discussion Thread submission due Monday

VOTE ON THE OFRENDA DESIGN!

• Share your super cool design with the class
• Assign your image a number
• Vote on the best one
• Remember practicality, impact, cost, time
• Captains email the design to Ms Natali