SwedishOfferkastand Recent Roadside Memorials

Anna Petersson

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Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration

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The erection of roadside memorials in Sweden is commonly considered a novel practice. However, it bears certain similarities with earlier traditions, especially, the so-called offerkast, a pile of sticks or stones thrown on the site of a death on the road.

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1984Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection 1981The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity 1979Space and Place: Humanistic Perspective 1987Collected Philosophical Papers 1982The Cult of the Saints 1998Roadside Memorials: Interpreting New Deathscapes in Newcastle, New South Wales 2006Death and religion in a changing world 2006Authority from Grief, Presence and Place in the Making of Roadside Memorials

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