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The Gerontologist, Vol 31, Issue 1 43-50, Copyright © 1991 by The Gerontological Society of America

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Ritual and dying: a cultural analysis of social support for caregivers

A Sankar
Department of Anthropology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202.

This study examines the role of social support in the process of caring for someone dying at home. Based on data from in-depth ethnographic interviews with 16 caregivers, it employs a cultural analysis to draw parallels with rituals of transition. Ritual provides a broad context of meanings and routines for securing the doubts and unknowns of individual experience. The way social support is provided plays a key role in the caregiver's transition to bereavement.


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