TY - JOUR
T1 - Epilogue
T2 - A "good" military death
AU - Ben-Ari, Eyal
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - As an epilogue to the present volume, this article picks up its central themes. It elaborates some of the main points about casualty aversion that are made in the preceding contributions. At the same time, by adding its own themes and insights, this article is complementary in character. It focuses on how a "good" military death is defined by cultural scripts and how, in accordance with those scripts, death is dealt with by the military organization and its guild of experts. Cultural scripts change over time and may differ from one society to another. As a consequence, the practices of dealing with military death may differ too. Generally speaking, though, military organizations throughout the West echo the ways in which casualties nowadays are looked upon by parent societies.
AB - As an epilogue to the present volume, this article picks up its central themes. It elaborates some of the main points about casualty aversion that are made in the preceding contributions. At the same time, by adding its own themes and insights, this article is complementary in character. It focuses on how a "good" military death is defined by cultural scripts and how, in accordance with those scripts, death is dealt with by the military organization and its guild of experts. Cultural scripts change over time and may differ from one society to another. As a consequence, the practices of dealing with military death may differ too. Generally speaking, though, military organizations throughout the West echo the ways in which casualties nowadays are looked upon by parent societies.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=25644438420&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0095327X0503100410
DO - 10.1177/0095327X0503100410
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AN - SCOPUS:25644438420
SN - 0095-327X
VL - 31
SP - 651
EP - 664
JO - Armed Forces and Society
JF - Armed Forces and Society
IS - 4
ER -