The project aims to achieve a comprehensive understanding of the role of the dead in the lives of individuals in contemporary society.
Rather than seeing individuals’ experiences of the dead as mere expressions of ‘folk belief’ or symbols and metaphors for cultural and social problems and changes, the project will consider the dead as active agents in the relationships between individuals and broader social and cultural processes.
As part of the project, Prof. Mencej and her team of researchers will explore how the dead influence individuals’ thoughts, values and behaviour; how they are involved in their social relations; and what impact they have on individuals within the broader social, cultural and political context.
The project will involve ten researchers from Slovenia and abroad, with ethnographic research in Slovenia, Hungary, Slovakia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Prof. Uršula Čebron Lipovec, PhD, Head of the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana, will talk to Prof. Mirjam Mencej, PhD, about the ERC project DEAGENCY and her research work.
You are cordially invited!