Kelli Swazey: Life that doesn't end with death | TED Talk

Kelli Swazey: Life that doesn't end with death | TED Talk


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Kelli Swazey
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TEDMED 2013

Life that doesn't end with death














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In Tana Toraja, weddings and births aren't the social gatherings that knit society together. In this part of Indonesia, big, raucous funerals are at the center of social life. Anthropologist Kelli Swazey takes a look at this culture, in which the bodies of dead relatives are cared for years after they have passed away -- because relationships with loved ones don't simply end when breathing does.


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Kelli Swazey · Anthropologist

Kelli Swazey examines how religious and spiritual practices form group identity, and play a vital role in structuring the interactions of individuals within a culture.
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