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This paper reviews some key conceptual questions in the study of cross-cultural aspects of bereavement. Six questions are reviewed in cross-cultural perspective: whether individuals in all societies share the same private experience and public expression of grief; whether the stages of grief occur in the same sequence and at the same rate in all cultures; the nature of the relationship between the individual's private grief and his public mourning; the reactions of children to death, and the reactions of adults to the death of children; the role of religious belief; and the possibility that an ethnic group can experience collective grief in response to uprooting.
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Eisenbruch, M. Cross-cultural aspects of bereavement. I: A conceptual framework for comparative analysis. Cult Med Psych 8, 283–309 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00055172
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