TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Bereavement: an anthropological approach
JO  - Death studies
A1  - Souza, Margaret
SP  - 61
EP  - 67
VL  - 41
IS  - 1
N2  - The literature on bereavement has been dominated by psychology (Bowlby, 1969; Freud, 1961 ; Parkes, 1972 ; Worden, 1991 ). Social Science (Hockey et al., 2001 ; Klass, Silverman, & Nickman, 1996; Valentine, 2008 ; Walter, 1999 ) has expanded that perspective by illustrating the ways in which the bereaved maintain continuing bonds with the deceased. In this article I build upon the social science literature from an anthropological perspective. I focus upon how the bereaved must learn to live in the social environment without the deceased in what I call a "new normal." The connections to their social environment have been altered as a link in those connections has been broken. The bereavement process requires repairing that rupture and developing a new way in which to adopt a new sense of self. This article mainly focuses on issues involved with the loss of a spouse.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0748-1187
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2016.1257888
ID  - ref1
ER  -