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A lecture by Professor Breandan Mac Suibhne titled, Mortuary Practice in "the Time of the Famine": Ireland, 1846-52
In places where mortality ran high in “the time of the Famine”, the breakdown of traditional mortuary practices compounded the stress of death for the bereaved. Observers of the poor, and, indeed, the poor themselves, represented the abandonment of rituals surrounding wakes and the removal and burial of the dead as a marker of the depths to which famine reduces people, that is, how it pushes them beneath the waterline of humanity: just as extreme want “reduced” the poor to eating what had hitherto been regarded as animal food and to “inhuman” behavior it “reduced” them too to treating their dead like carrion.
Thursday, October 11, 2018 at 4:00pm to 7:00pm
Devlin Hall, room 101
Devlin Hall, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
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