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Kelli Swazey: Life that doesn't end with death
About this film
In Tana Toraja, weddings and births aren’t the social gatherings that knit society together. In this part of Indonesia, big, raucous funerals form the center of social life. Anthropologist Kelli Swazey takes a look at this culture, in which the bodies of dead relatives are cared for even years after they have passed. While it sounds strange to Western sensibilities, she says, this could actually be a truer reflection of the fact that relationships with loved ones don’t simply end when breathing does. (Filmed at TEDMED.)
Directors & creators
TED.com
Subjects
TEDTalks, TED, Talks, death, world cultures, TEDMED 2013, 2013
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