special burial practices and funerals

Scope Note

Abbreviated and extended funerals; distinctive mortuary rites in special cases of death (e.g., for an enemy, stranger, executed criminal, pauper, slave, child, women dying in childbirth, chief, shaman, warrior, person dying abroad, victim of accidental death, suicide, homicide, victim of epidemic or loathsome disease); ceremonies at the death of animals; etc.

Identifier

Broader Term

• 760 death

Related Terms

• 727 aftermath of combat
• 753 theory of disease
• 782 prayers and sacrifices
• 843 pregnancy
• 845 difficult and unusual births
• 847 abortion and infanticide