Luto e ritos de passagem em tempos de Covid-19

Abstract

The present master's thesis analyzes how changes occurred in the funeral ritual and in the rites that compose it, during the process of experiencing and elaborating mourning in the context of COVID-19. To this end, authors of culturais performances such as Schechner (1985), Turner (2013), Gennep (2011) are used, as well the philosopher Cassirer (2009). As it is understood that there has been a shift from face to-face wakes to sharing experiences on social networks due to the restrictive sanitary measures imposed during the pandemic, the netnographic method by Kozinets (2014) was chosen here, which investigates the reaction of newspaper readers to the newsworthiness of the growing number of deaths during the pandemic period and the socialization of experiences in virtual memorials created by the newspapers themselves. As a corpus for research, news items posted on the website of the newspapers O Popular, Folha de São Paulo and O Globo were chosen, which denote a recreation of the rites that make up the funeral ritual. As it is understood that there has been a shift from in-person wakes to sharing experiences on social networks due to restrictive health measures imposed during the pandemic, the netnographic method of Kozinets (2014) was chosen here, which investigates the reaction of newspaper readers to the newsworthiness of the growing number of deaths during the pandemic period and the socialization of experiences in virtual memorials created by the newspapers themselves. From the collection of netnographic data, interdisciplinary analyzes were developed and interpreted of these contents from the literature belonging to the theoretical framework of Cultural Performances. As a result, it was noted that even with the attempt to adapt the rites that precede and implement the burial for social networks, the absence of a staging and close experience, with contact physical, within religious perspectives, makes acceptance difficult and prevents cycles from being closed and transitions made in the way expected.