Modern Grief, Postmodern Grief

Walter, Tony

doi:10.1080/03906700601129798

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“…Consequently, loss and mourning can be a more isolating experience for the bereaved. While "private" grief is experienced by only a small circle of individuals directly impacted by the loss, "shared" grief is where the death is recognized and mourned by the entire community (Walter, 2007). There is also narrative evidence that, for the Hutterites, focusing on the numinous aspects of loss seem to foster posttraumatic growth.…”

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Through the Touch of God: Child Death and Spiritual Sustenance in a Hutterian Colony

Cacciatore

Ong

2012

Omega (Westport)

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Nestled in more than 5,000 acres of farmland in rural South Dakota, one Hutterian colony flourishes with more than 23 families and a population of 115 people. Very little is known about the ways in which Hutterites experience traumatic infant and child death on the colony. No research studies to date have explored this topic. This is an ethnographic study that utilized extended observations of the group and both individual and group interviewing in order to create a cultural portrait specifically focusing on Hutterites experiencing traumatic child death. Observations were organized into five thematic categories: 1) details of the actual death experience; 2) emotional and physical reactions to the loss; 3) familial and communal response; 4) coping and rituals; and 5) spirituality. The role of communal mourning, ritualization, and spirituality in creating a healing milieu for bereaved families is discussed.

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Through the Touch of God: Child Death and Spiritual Sustenance in a Hutterian Colony

Cacciatore

Ong

2012

Omega (Westport)

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“…The longevity, geographical mobility and separation of home and work that typically accompany urbanisation and industrialisation have created a radically new social context for mourning (Walter, 1999(Walter, , 2007. The typical death is now of an old person, who leaves behind an elderly spouse and adult children who may each live in different towns or even continents and who go out to work with colleagues who never knew the deceased.…”

Section: Private Mourning (Twentieth Century)mentioning

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New mourners, old mourners: online memorial culture as a chapter in the history of mourning

Walter

2014

New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia

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How does online mourning differ from offline mourning? Throughout history, demographic, social and technological changes have altered mourners' social relationships with both the living and the dead, and hence their experiences of grief. Online technologies comprise the latest chapter in this story; earlier chapters include family/community mourning (preindustrial), private mourning (twentieth century) and public mourning (turn of the millennium). Pervasive social media in which users generate their own content have significantly shifted mourners' social interactions and the norms that govern them, partly in new directions (such as enfranchising previously stigmatised griefs; more potential for conflict between mourners and others) but partly returning to something more like the relationships of the preindustrial village (such as everyday awareness of mortality, greater use of religious imagery, more potential for conflict among mourners). Online, mourners can experience both greater freedom to be themselves and increased social pressure to conform to group norms as to who should be mourned and how.Online memorial culture is both a form of online culture, and a form of mourning and memorialising. This article examines it as the latter, sketching a brief history of mourning in order to show how online mourning both differs from, and does not differ from, offline mourning. Specifically, I will show how demographic, social and technological changes in recent centuries have changed mourners' social relationships with both the living and the dead, and hence their experiences of grief; online technologies comprise the latest chapter in this story. The first (1990s) generation of specialised online groups and virtual cemeteries changed surprisingly little, but from the mid-2000s social media's user generated content, together with its mobile technology-enabled pervasiveness, has been as significant as urbanisation and industrialisation in changing mourners' social relationships, not least in partially reverting to pre-industrial modes of mourning.

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“…These practices are developing in modern post-industrial societies, where social structures are fragmented (Walter 2007) and where traditional socialization frameworks are less infl uential (Giddens 1991) as they are now in competition with a growing individualism. These practices are developing in modern post-industrial societies, where social structures are fragmented (Walter 2007) and where traditional socialization frameworks are less infl uential (Giddens 1991) as they are now in competition with a growing individualism.…”

Section: Mourning and Online Practicesmentioning

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Modern Grief, Postmodern Grief

Cited by 45 publications

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Through the Touch of God: Child Death and Spiritual Sustenance in a Hutterian Colony

Through the Touch of God: Child Death and Spiritual Sustenance in a Hutterian Colony

New mourners, old mourners: online memorial culture as a chapter in the history of mourning

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