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altar de muertos
ancestor worship
ars moriendi
Black Death
butsudan
calevera
cempasuchitl
ch’ing ming

charnel house
collective destiny
cultural competence
culture
danse macabre
death knells
death songs
deathbed scene
Día de los Muertos
effigy
ethnocentrism
existential dread
fêng-shui
filial piety
haka
hapa

invisible death
kaddish
living dead
local identity
los angelitos
memento mori

memorialization
mourning restraints
name avoidance
necromancy
novena
o-bon
ofrenda

origin-of-death myths
otherworld
panteón
recuerdo

rites of passage
rituals of dying
samhain
shaman
shivah
social construction of reality
social learning theory
social structure
society
spirit tablet
structural view of society
subculture
symbolic interactionism
tamed death
Valhalla
Valkyries
vicarious reinforcement
yahrzeit







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