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标题：My culture is engraved on my tombstone
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作者：Erdoğan Bada ; Ömer Gökhan Ulum
期刊名称：International Journal of Human Sciences
印刷版ISSN：1303-5134
出版年度：2016
卷号：13
期号：3
页码：5407
DOI：10.14687/jhs.v13i3.4246
出版社：International Journal of Human Sciences
摘要：We, humans, mirror our cultural characteristics in death just as we do in life. This study focuses on the way the dead communicate with the living through their gravestones. For this, we surveyed, photographed and documented a plethora of gravestones affiliated to Shamanism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and conducted content analysis of thematized scripts on stones and objects left on graves for remembrance. Our findings suggest that each set of beliefs displays specific as well as common messages concerning the deceased and the society they belonged to. The study asserts that although we, ephemeral creatures, pass in our final hour, our gravestones keep transmitting our cultural identity from generation to generation with information regarding who and what we were.