Birth and Death: Studying Ritual, Embodied Practices and Spirituality at the Start and End of Life.

In their paper on funeral and birth rituals in Russia, [20] ([20]) draw our attention to the importance of transmitting knowledge about "ritual fractures". Birth and death are fundamental human experiences. Rituals surrounding perinatal loss thus not only resemble death rites but also initiation rites. While birth has been much less visualized than death, the here studied material and visual representations of birth show how birth is related to other rites of passages. [Extracted from the article]