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The Anthropo-Semiotics of the Chinese Funeral Striptease
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Mosquera, Alexander |
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Abstract | Although ritual funeral dances have been present throughout the history of some human societies, it is noteworthy that in some rural areas of countries such as China the funeral striptease as a cultural tradition has been established. The general goal of this work is to understand the presence of the striptease as a component part of funeral rituals in Chinese rural culture. To this end, the works of Finol on anthropo-semiotics (2011), of Lotman on the semiotics of culture (1996, 1998, 1999, 2000), of Peirce on triadic semiotics (1987), of Van Gennep on rites of passage (1984, 2008), and Del Fresno’s concept of Netnography (2011) were used to analyze this phenomenon from an epistemological introspective-experiential approach (Padrón Guillén 2001, 2003). The study concludes with three main findings: the funeral striptease serves as a mask used by humans to hide the fear of death, to give an aesthetic role to death, and to express the underlying nakedness of a person faced with the binomial life/death. |
| Related Links | http://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/css.2016.12.issue-4/css-2016-0051/css-2016-0051.xml |
| Ending Page | 576 |
| Page Count | 28 |
| Starting Page | 549 |
| ISSN | 21989605 |
| e-ISSN | 21989613 |
| DOI | 10.1515/css-2016-0051 |
| Journal | Chinese Semiotic Studies |
| Issue Number | 4 |
| Volume Number | 12 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
| Publisher Date | 2016-11-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Chinese Semiotic Studies History and Philosophy of Science Rites of Passage Ritual Dances Semiotics of Culture Journal: Chinese Semiotic Studies, Issue- 1-2 |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Communication Linguistics and Language |
