Holding on or letting go?: the resolution of grief in relation to two Xhosa rituals in South Africa
The dominant emphasis in Western models of bereavement is on the breaking of bonds with the deceased in order for healing to occur. Failure to let go often leads to a diagnosis of 'pathological grief'. This paper challenges the assumption that death invariably means that the bonds with the...
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Rhodes University
2003
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016055 |