This blog's aim

This blog tries to show a number of ways of marking where someone has died in a public place (from whatever cause) by leaving wreaths, markers, black silhouettes, crosses... Part of an anthropologial research project in France, it let's us have a look also at other "bornes de memoire" : called roadside memorials or roadside altars in Ireland, United-States, Australia and in United-Kingdom, descansos in spanish, altarini in italian, kapliczki in Poland. It has also the aim of encouraging exchanges (photos, personal accounts, informations), stimulating reactions and keeping a record of these practices. The ethnological study to which this blog was contributing has been completed (september 2006). The blog will therefore not receive such regular attention as before. Nevertheless, your reactions and comments will still be read with interest. The french thesis can be read on the Imageson.org site (french human sciences electronic edition), and you can read informations on the sonore archives on the MMSH's Phonothèque site (Aix-en-Provence, France).

Présentation

Ce blog vise à faire état des différentes manières de marquer le lieu du décès d'un individu dans l'espace public (et quelle qu'en soit la cause) : pose de bouquets funéraires, stèles, silhouettes noires, croix... Il s'inscrit dans une étude anthropologique française qui a pris fin en septembre 2006. Le résultat de ce travail peut-être lu sur le site Imageson.org (édition électronique en sciences humaines), et les notices du corpus sonore peuvent être consultées sur le site de la phonothèque de la Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme (Aix-en-Provence). Ce blog permet de jeter un oeil sur des exemples internationaux, a pour but de créer des échanges, de stimuler des réactions et de garder une trace de cette pratique en suivant l'évolution des memorials. Il s'oriente désormais vers une veille nationale et internationale sur les questions de marquage public de la mort, en prenant garde à tous les débats qu'il suscite et à toutes les règlementations qu'il entraîne.

 

Mercredi 14 avril 2010 3 14 /04 /Avr /2010 10:32

Article du 14 août 2009, BBC News (Royaume-Uni)


A roadside memorial is planned for a hen that lived alongside a stretch of the A66 in Cumbria.

Bee Bee escaped from an allotment at Great Broughton near Cockermouth in April 2008 and made her home at the side of the road at Brigham.

She became popular with motorists and would run alongside cars, but was killed five months later.

Now two friends will mark the first anniversary of her death by placing a cross at the spot where she died.

'Always a character'

Michael Graham, 24, of Workington said: "When we first saw her at the side of the road we thought it was a bit odd.

"But as the days went on it became a bit of a ritual to toot your horn as she went by.

"It gave us another reason to get up in the morning.

"She always used to be on the same side of the road and the only time she tried to cross she got run over.

"So we have decided to put up a cross as a sign of respect on 11 September."

More than 200 people have registered on a memorial page to Bee Bee on social networking site Facebook.

Bee Bee's former owner Janet King said: "She was always a character and used to follow me around.

"I didn't clip her wing feathers and she managed to get out of the pen.

"I saw her a couple of months later by the A66 and she seemed very happy so we left her.

"It's very touching that so many people thought so much about a little black hen."


 

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