Note di campo sull’elaborazione del lutto nell’Italia contemporanea: riflessione sui tatuaggi commemorativi e ipotesi di auto-poiesi

Every society creates models of cultural reference for managing life events. Death is a painful and tragic events to be treated and the culture is called upon to manage it. The aim is domesticating death and making it less full of unknown. But what happens when a society is lacking of these rituals? If contemporary societies are maybe losing their funeral rites, it’s also true that new spontaneous rituals are arising: it’s the case of commemorative tattoos. They have been studied as modern effort to give a form to the person that survive, in a personalized auto-poiesis project. These body modifications seem rite ready to be customized and refilled with the meaning that the protagonist needs to celebrate. Are they an answer to the shortage of death rituals in the modern culture?