Book
Death in Murelaga: funerary ritual in a Spanish Basque village
University of Washington • Seattle • Published In 1969 • Pages: 14, 240
By: Douglass, William A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of funerals, mourning, and memorials in the Spanish Basque town of Murélaga. The author very elegantly shows the relationships and interaction among Catholic dogma and ritual, local funerary customs, and the social structure of Murélaga. This important source focuses on the beliefs, practices, and institutions surrounding death to arrive at an insightful understanding of the local social structure, with special emphasis on the central role played by individual households.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Incorporeal property
- Highways and bridges
- Gender status
- Sodalities
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Mode of marriage
- Household
- Kindreds and ramages
- Community structure
- Burial practices and funerals
- Mourning
- Cult of the dead
- Ritual
- Congregations
- Organized ceremonial
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Basques
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southern Europe
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Christopher Latham ; 1990-1991
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- Jan.-Aug. 1965 ; summer of 1966 (2 months)
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Murélaga, Vizcaya, Spain
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] William A. Douglass
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-234) and index
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Basques