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El striptease en rituales funerarios chinos como máscara ante la muerte
Authors: Alexander Mosquera
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Funeral ritual dances have been present throughout the history of human kind, but they have integrated the striptease to funeral rites in some rural areas of China. This work aims to understand the presence of striptease as a part of those rituals. Contributions of Finol on Anthropo-Semiotics (2011), Semiotics of Culture (Lotman, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000), triadic Semiotics by Peirce (1987), the rites of passage (Van Gennep, 2008) and Netnography (Del Fresno, 2011) were used for analysing this phenomenon from an epistemological approach introspective-experiential (Padron Guillen, 2001, 2003). As conclusion, it can be said that funeral striptease is a mask used by humans for hiding their fear about death, giving an aesthetic role to the latter, as well as a way of expressing the underlying nakedness in the binomial life/death.