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Available until 04/13/2030 I don't believe in ghosts, but they scare me. A good dead person must be well dead and buried. We can remember them with tenderness but we don't necessarily want them to appear. Grégory Delaplace is an anthropologist at the École pratique des hautes études. He has notably written “Les Intelligences particuliers” (Vues de l'Esprit, 2021), a book on haunted houses in England as well as “La voix des Fantômes” (Seuil, 2024), in which he examines various funeral rituals around the world. He works on the different ways in which societies organize their relationships with the dead and on how the dead sometimes refuse to be forgotten and come back to demand things from the living. What is the purpose of our funeral rituals, to remember or to forget? When do the dead escape the place we wanted to give them? What do ghosts want from us? References: - Jean Bazin, “Nails in the Mona Lisa. Anthropology in a Different Way”, Anacharsis, 1991 - Thomas Laqueur, “The Work of the Dead, A Cultural History of Mortal Remains”, Gallimard, 2018 - Michel Lauwers, “Birth of the Cemetery: Sacred Places and the Land of the Dead in the Medieval West”, Paris, Aubier, 2005 - Anne-Christine Taylor “Forgetting the Dead and Remembering Murders: Experiences of History among the Jivaro”, Terrain, no. 29, 1997 - Erik Mueggler, “Songs for Dead Parents. Corpse, text, and world in Southwest China”, The University of Chicago Press, 2017. - Beth Conklin Consuming grief: compassionate cannibalism in an Amazonian society, University of Texas Press, 2001 - Christophe Pons, “Networks of the living, solidarity of the dead: A symbolic system in Iceland”, Terrain, no. 38, 2002 - Piers Vitebsky, “Dialogues with the dead: the discussion of mortality among the Sora of eastern India”, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1993 - Claude Levis-Strauss, “Le Père Noël supplicié”, Les Temps Modernes, vol. 77, 1952 - Heonik Kwon, “Ghosts of War in Vietnam”, Cambridge University Press, 2008 #ghost #arte Subscribe to the ARTE channel / @arte Follow us on social media! Facebook: / artetv Twitter: / artefr Instagram: / artefr