Paper short abstract:

The transmission of the self community of the village and its feeling of belonging to the earth may be considered from the ethnographic analysis of a few mental and cultural pictures, linked to different burial modalities, expressing another way –sensations and feelings– what the word cannot do.

Paper long abstract:

The symbolic perception of burial in the past was coupled with a self-representation which links closely population and village (the land and its boundaries), traditionally structured by legends, stories and cultural images expressing their belongings to the place. The posteriors changes have led to a symbolic of mobility. The inhabitant, which cemetery is the reference, had transmitted a notion of the self in terms of binding groups -with a moral vision which constitutes a mirror image- by the sharing of a space linked to the ancestors: the cemetery, which belongings set the tone of the intimacy: their stories, their representations codes and that which is not transmitted by the word, but the mental picture.

My ethnographic research approaches some shared cultural images expressing emotions and feelings. It deals with a imaged development of a speech containing explanatory theories and the sensations non translated in words, making a link between the silence and cultural image condensing what is left unsaid and the inexpressible, reminding us the famous dilemma of Wittgenstein : "What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence". Which reinforces the feeling of belonging, what's more with the strictly codified, they are the unexpressed aspects. I will emphasis on the burial ground and its vegetation world, through the Rose legend (from my ethnography), as constitute and referent in the transmission of the sensibility and their socialization, as well as the evolution of the burials in the columbarium.