Rites de Passage and Disposable of the Corpse:A Study on Death Rites Among the Deoris in a Rural Context of Assam,India

作     者：Arifur Zaman 

作者机构：Gauhati UniversityGuwahatiIndia 

出 版 物：《Cultural and Religious Studies》 (文化与宗教研究（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2022年第10卷第5期

页      面：260-268页

学科分类：0502[文学-外国语言文学] 050201[文学-英语语言文学] 05[文学] 

主　　题：Deori death religion disposal rites rituals 

摘      要：Death is one of the important crises rites in human society which invariably occur during the lifecycle of an individual. Death means the termination of the life of an individual along with its biological functions. It is one of the indispensable aspects of many traditions and organizations and is an important feature of every culture and civilization in the world. In common parlance death refers to the moment at which life ends and one of the difficult tasks of defining death is to distinguish it from the life of an individual. When a death occurs to an individual, it requires drawing precise conceptual boundaries between life and death. The life of an individual is defined on the basis of consciousness and when consciousness ceases, a person is said to have died. Death has an integral relationship with religion, especially with rites and rituals through which the departed soul is appeased with the intervention of the supernatural. In every society, there are certain customs related to death as well as the disposal of the corpse which reflect the parochial belief system associated with the event. In this paper, an attempt has been made to examine the pattern of disposal of death, integral religious rites, and rituals among the Tengapania Deoris of Assam.